We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
A jealous lover of human liberty deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity I reverse the phrase of Voltaire and say that if God really existed it would be necessary to abolish him.
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
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.
A lot of people think 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.