Reversibility Quotes

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.