Quotes of Invert - somelinesforyou

“ And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help — for it rolls impotently on as thou or I. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ When the heart is converted, the purse is inverted. ”

- Unknown

“ We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision. ”

- Thomas Samuel Kuhn

“ Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. ”

- Thomas Samuel Kuhn

“ AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, … I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. ”

- William Cowper

“ I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming… ”

- Gaston Bachelard
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