World Upside Down Quotes

• Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  World, Down And, Upside Down

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• The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

  Tori Amos

  Feelings, Wake Up, Safe

  "Financial crisis inspires Tori Amos' latest album". Interview with Michelle Nichols, www.reuters.com. May 8, 2009.

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• The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

  Billy Sunday

  Order, Needs, World

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Live Aid turned our world upside down.

  John Deacon

  Our World, Aids, World

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• Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Wind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Funny, Life, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

  Randy Alcorn

  Wise, Use, World

  FaceBook post by Randy Alcorn from Feb 19, 2016

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• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  James MacArthur

  Black And White, Guy, World

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• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Party, Independent

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• Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

  Eric Clapton

  Love You, World, Fool

  Song: Layla

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• All girls should have a poem
  written for them even if
  we have to turn this goddamn world
  upside down to do it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Girl, Should Have, World

  Richard Brautigan (2016). “C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes”, p.281, Le Castor Astral éditeur

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• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Kids, Needs

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• One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, World, Tasks

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

  George Carlin

  World, Comedy, Upside Down

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• Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual.  His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound.  And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection.  People were never the same after listening to him….The people who followed Him were unique in their generation.  They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.  The world has never been the same.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Acceptance, Unique

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• We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

  Angelina Grimke

  World, Upside Down, Abolition

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, Holocaust

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• We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

  Calvin Miller

  Christmas, Simple, Example

  Calvin Miller (2006). “The Christ of Christmas”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group

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• That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

  Eva Longoria

  Clever, Pregnancy, Typical

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• Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

  A.C.H. Smith

  Children, Taken, Expectations

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• Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

  John Lydon

  Laughing, Oscars, Able

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

  Sojourner Truth

  Strong Women, Truth, Together

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

  Slash

  Life Changing, Sadness, Fate

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Mean, Thinking, World

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