A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Reversing roles sometimes is good. I'll free you from having to be in control all the time. I'll take you places you've never been.
— Scarlet Risque
In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.
— Arundhati Roy
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
— Elbert Hubbard
It felt good to be the one holding the blade; the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control.
— S.R. Ford
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. — Mike Rounds
Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in. — Ashly Lorenzana
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. — Robert Downey Jr.
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. — Wallace Stegner
War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. — John Steinbeck
The real food in Ag 6 looked like old people before aging-reversal treatments. — Veronica Rossi
Acts of standing every trial without reversal is a sign of positiveness. — Sol Michael
In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser. — Christina Enevoldsen
This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts. — Michael Lewis
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. — George C. Marshall
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution. — Mason Cooley
From surfeit to loss is a short line. — Carol Shields
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. — Tony Gilroy
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal. — Alan Greenspan
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. — Edmund Snow Carpenter
If you want to healHeal others
And smile or weep
At this very happy reversal of fate — Muriel Barbery
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. — Elizabeth Warren
