#reverse

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #behave #extraordinary #four

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#about #am #concerned #corporate #elite

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#around #been #done #ever #familiar

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#al gore #attention #course #destruction #earth

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#condition #could #i #middle #mother

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#immense #italy #losing #reverse #seen

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#happiness #having #lot #money #reverse

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#chain #concentrated #discovery #even #fatty