Overturns Quotes

#1. States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Victor Davis Hanson

#2. Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart with it off into the abyss.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience.

John Milton

#5. Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

Dr. An Wang

#6. All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

Chantal Mouffe

#7. Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

Ronald Biggs

#9. You use a different part of your heart with girls.

Martin Amis

#10. If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

Jeff Wall

#11. Most of the research done on happiness suggests that people actually become less happy when they have children and do not begin to approach their prior level of happiness until their children leave home.

Sam Harris

#12. We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

Gabby Douglas

#13. There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Massimo Vignelli

#14. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I remember what I was like as a teenager, with an enormous amount of energy and hormones. You have to be able to release it, and dancing is really an innocent way.

Andie MacDowell

#16. Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Ezra Pound

#17. He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.

Richard Winger

#18. There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

Robert Griffin III

#19. Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.

Jonathan Gash