Things Upside Down Quotes

• 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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• I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Perspective, Watches, Upside Down

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• In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dream, Upside Down, Turns

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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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• 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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• Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

  Alber Elbaz

  Hate, Why Not, Down And

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• I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

  Tibor Kalman

  Always Trying, Looks, Down And

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• I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

  Tom Waits

  Want, Upside Down, Timer

  Interview with Terry Gross, whqr.org. November 3, 2011.

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• My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Art, Ideas

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• I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Sweaters, People

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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, World Upside Down, Wake Up

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

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• If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Talking, Goal

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Memories, Cake, Saving

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• Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Upside Down, Moments, Possibility

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• H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down and crawl around inside it. But, look, the guy was eating poorly, he had like a quart of ice cream a day. He was suffering constantly near the end. He wasn't concerned with his body at all, not the way we're concerned with our bodies nowadays.

  Paul Laffoley

  Ice, Guy, Suffering

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.

  Jack Johnson

  Mother, Song, Feelings

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• The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Healing, Order

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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or literally like my wife's cat.

  Emo Philips

  Cat, Wife, Might

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• I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.

  Debora Spar

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

  Richard Stallman

  Law, Ideas, Justice

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.157, Lulu.com

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• When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Iphone, Uber

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

  Randall Jarrell

  Interesting, Upside Down, Poet

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens" (p. 64), 1969.

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