People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. . . . All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living. ' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world. " You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.
We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.
In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.
If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.
