World Upside Down Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

  Jory John

  Fun, World, Upside Down

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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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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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  World, Transformation, Upside Down

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• A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Passion, Christianity, Apostolic

  Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

  Josh Hunt

  People, Joy, Church

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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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• 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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