Upside Down Quotes - Page 5

• Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

  Philipp Meyer

  Jobs, Community, Down And

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• Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Dangerous, Historian, Capable

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• Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Beautiful, Beach, Community

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• Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

  African Spir

  Agreement, Order, Engagement

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 45), 1937.

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• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Hollywood

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• Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Workout, School, Immature

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• It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Fashion, Buddhism

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• While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.

  Evanna Lynch

  Fun, Home, Challenges

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• I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Horse, Sea, Knees

  "Need to Meet: Gabourey Sidibe". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. July 22, 2010.

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• You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

  Emilio Estevez

  Years, Looks, World

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• In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things.

  Michelle Forbes

  Blood, Vampire, Age

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• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  Mark Steyn

  Friday, Jobs, Real

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• Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Nature, Men

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• Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Heartbroken, Wind, Down And

  "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 4, 2008.

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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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• It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

  Reeve Carney

  Air, Feet

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• The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

  Robert Moss

  Spiritual, Struggle, Destiny

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.110, New World Library

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• My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Glasses, Rose

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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• Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

  Vikas Swarup

  Dream, Sweet, Air

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• The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Yield, Soul, Soil

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

  Oscar Romero

  Mad, Communist, Epithet

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• Winter has arrived in North London. Snow has settled.
  The white snow looks beautiful and covers everything my eyes can see, yet beneath the incomprehensible beauty, the snow freezes greenery which struggles to breathe.
  Green leaves freeze from existence as children scream go faster to fathers who push them along in upside down bin lids, as they make the most of their schools being closed.

  Craig Stone

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Blessing

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Jobs, Real, Men

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