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“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.”

Ifs Men Happens Lasts Games Simple Perfect Color Pure Ocean Baseball Gentle Life Changing Diamond Tides Reverse Anything Is Possible Flawless Anything Can Happen

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)”

Littles Feelings Knowing Too Much Danger Dry Reverse Hopelessness Knowing Everything

Author:Toni Morrison

“What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”

“The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.”

Should Rate Tongue Speed Reverse

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”

Inspirational Littles Funny Time Healing Strikes Sarcastic Reverse

Book:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.”

Thinking Trying Opinion Lows Reverse Erase

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.”

Stills Lying Fundamentals Simplicity Reverse Traps Complication Bourne Identity

Book:The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum

Source: The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum

“And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...”

Men Giving Said Matter Done Light Might Care Lasts Universe Answers Consciousness Steps Program Chaos Take Care Organized Reverse Timeless Demonstration Intervals Entropy

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

Wisdom Age Funny Grows Mistake Regard Aging Grades Climbs Surprising Reverse Old People Elders Stride Growing Older Dissolution Funny Aging

Author:George Sand

“It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.”

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”

Ifs Dream House Fiction Wonder Poet Madness Waking Reverse Psychosis

Author:William H. Gass

“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World May Stories Shapes Mythology Reverse

Author:Alan Moore

“Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.”

Bigs Asks Left Church Fronts Wall Realising Reverse Grey Posters

Book:The End Of Mr. Y

Source: The End Of Mr. Y

“The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.”

Men May Play Next Strong Loss Trouble Events Gains Mere Defeat Appearance Score Reverse True Meaning Semblance Checkmate

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”

People World Way Want Doe Stills Matter Dream Social Economic Effects Civilization Destructive Sustainability Reverse Embedded Social Systems Intertwined

Author:Derrick Jensen

“You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.”

Way Two Together Views Logic Instruments Fishes Point Of View Holes Collections Injury Strings Tied Reverse Two Ways Lexicographer

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?”

Ifs Men World Children Art Book Asks Half Creativity Creation Bears Genius Art Is Female Rage Tales Feminine Resentment Reverse Irrelevant Masculine Evoke Sneer

Author:May Sarton

“Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.”

People Ifs Years Today Religious Economic Wave Debt Storm Reverse Self Reliance Preparedness Lds Food Supply Debt Free Emergency Preparedness

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”

Inspirational Play Suffering Dear Misfortunes Reverse

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.”

Knows Said Home Pay Attention Heard Subjects Sentences Pay Attention Reverse Verbs

Author:Steven Brust

“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.”

Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.”

Inspirational Mean Make Sense I Have Learned Reverse

Author:Philip Yancey

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

Order Obsession Reverse Arranging Alphabetical Order Arranging Things

Book:The City of Dreaming Books

Source: The City of Dreaming Books

“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”

Inspirational Principles Reverse Caged I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.”

“I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.”

Men Moments Turns Left Cities Behinds Records Sea Source Rivers Forests Existentialism Reverse Leading Me Nausea Existentialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)”

Responsibility Months Normal Twenties Yeah Killing Excuse Eight Reverse Excuse Me Artemis Pms Cranky

Book:Devil May Cry

Source: Devil May Cry

“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”

Nature Economy Environment Reverse

Author:Herman E. Daly

“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.”

Used Car Regret Dad Moved My Dad Driving Reverse

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”

Pleasant Reverse Advancing Skulduggery Pleasant

Author:Derek Landy

“A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.”

Knows Wells Persons Said Form Young Force Know How Weapons Roots Defeat Why Not Sooner Or Later Reverse

Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day

“Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go”

Giving Arms Letting Go Giving Up Wings Curse Butterfly Reverse

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.”

Evil Force Known Virtue Capacity Hatred Weight Vices Debt Pounds Engines Reverse Discontent National Debt Calculators Decomposition

Book:Hard Times

Source: Hard Times

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

Ifs Men Mind Doe Enough Force Hurt Break Ought Weak Logic Mad Stupidity Insanity Wheels Accurate Reverse Machinery Thrust Levers Weak Minds

Book:The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Source: The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.”

Way Reverse

Author:Alan Moore

“The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.”

Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

“It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.”

“To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.”

Eye School America Turns Class Economy Middle Huge Periods Blind Fingers Middle Class Reverse Fiery Alphabet Dissolving Quaint Menagerie Braille Turn Back Time

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.”

Should Persons Moments Asks Quality Doubt Relationship Negative Angry Mad Partners Being True Mysterious Have Faith Nuts Dozen Reverse

Author:Christopher Pike

“It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.”

Love Needs Shows Enemy Friends About Yourself Reverse Need A Change Actuality You Need To Change

Author:Gary Busey

“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .”

Mind Order Natural Healing Influence Thousand Expectations Makers Solitary Reverse Brooding Great Expectations Diseased Seclusion Secluded Great Expectations Important Havisham Miss Havisham

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen”

Kind Long Queens Funeral Reverse Old Saying Coronation

Author:Richelle Mead

“...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.”

“At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.”

Ifs Kind Ideas Self Whole Facts Home Seems Would Be Realizing Relationship Special Commitment Committed Reverse Nursing Arranging Nursing Home No Commitment

Author:John D. MacDonald

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

Want Life Sleep Sadness Sad Depression Wake Up Suicide Nightmare Reverse Depressing Relieved Great Depression Suicidal Thoughts Feeling Sad Really Sad Feeling Depressed Help With Depression

Author:Ned Vizzini

“My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.”

Thinking Heart Doe Walks Boys Hair My Heart Sight Brown Throat Stomach Reverse Pits Trajectory Brown Hair

Book:Before I Fall

Source: Before I Fall

“There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and there's hardly anyone else about. I slow right down. "What shall I do?" "Reverse," Zoey says. "They're not going to move." I wind down the window. "Oi!" I yell "Move your arses!" They turn languid, shift lazily to the edge of the road and grin as I blow kisses at them. Zoey looks stunned, "What's got into you?" "Nothing- I just haven't learned reversing yet.”

Looks Moving Turns Boys Sky Havens Strange Wind Kissing Window Edges Blow Block Colour Cigarette Reverse Bike Gang Hood Stunned Arses

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down. "You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel." "Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears." He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.”

Knows Trying Mind Firsts Shows Hands Moving Wish Grace Car Fronts Presses Reverse Up And Down Slides Wish You Gears Clutch

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.”

Way Mean Light Results Darkness Dependent Reverse

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.”

Knows Want Dream Life Is Happened Wake Up Awful Realization Awake Nightmare Reverse Bricks Relieved Really Sad

Author:Ned Vizzini

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