Quotes About Turning Things Upside Down

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

Nydia Velazquez

#6. I'm all out of fucks to give. Which

A. Zavarelli

#7. Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Anatole France

#8. It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

Seth

#9. I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a ... small child.

Emo Philips

#10. Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

Elena Ferrante

#11. 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

Carolyn See

#12. He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

Maimonides

#13. The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

Tom Peters

#14. - When the police are criminals, the criminals must become the police. The innocent must live underground, in the shit of the city, while the villains live in warm apartments. The world is upside down: I'm merely turning it the right way up.

Tom Rob Smith

#15. Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one's view, knocked
away facades.

Julianne MacLean

#16. To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

Peter Agre

#17. Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

Crystal Woods

#18. The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart.
... Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.

Lisa Wingate

#19. As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. 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

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

Jory John

#22. We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

Angelina Grimke

#23. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

Dennis Oppenheim

#24. I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.

Steven Tyler

#25. Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.

Erin Moran

#26. Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.

Celia Mcmahon

#27. Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

Laurie Davidson

#28. Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come

Elif Shafak

#29. How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

Lauren Bacall

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

Nikita Khrushchev

#31. The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.

Jessica Hische

#32. I know that whenever I feel my world turning
upside down, nothing grounds me like a manicure.

Lauren Kate

#33. Sydney to Grant: If I can forgive you for turning my life upside down, then can't you forgive me for one stupid moment of confusion?

Brynna Gabrielson

#34. Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Franz Grillparzer

#35. I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Erica Jong

#36. turning the traditional hierarchical pyramid upside down to emphasize that everyone is responsible - able to respond - for living the constitution and getting the desired results while modeling the organization's valued behaviors.

S. Chris Edmonds