Top 74 Turn Upside Down Quotes
#1. Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.
Julian Of Norwich
#2. 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
#3. If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?
Eduardo Galeano
#4. Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#5. 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
#6. I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
Ursus Wehrli
#7. One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.
Peter Landesman
#8. I've always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they're still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that's not well organized upside down, it won't work.
William Eggleston
#9. It melted in the rain ... it all melted ... I'd been just about to go down into the earth. There was nothing else for it if I wanted to turn myself upside down again, you see.
Han Kang
#10. Fear about what, exactly?'
'Everything,' I said. 'But mostly just the realization that all it takes is one moment for your entire world to turn upside down. One wrong decision, and it's over.
Kristina McBride
#11. On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.
Roger Bart
#12. And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering ... that the world can't take away from you.
Simon R. Green
#13. If you turn Hell upside down, you'll find 'Made in Germany' stamped on the bottom.
Joseph Loconte
#14. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Sojourner Truth
#15. Come on Eden. Turn that frown upside down. There's no reason for bad moods. It's a beautiful new day full of possibilities."
"maybe for you.
Michelle Rowen
#16. She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.
Margaret Atwood
#17. You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.
Scott Lynch
#18. I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the
right way again.
Alexander Masters
#19. You can't just turn someone's world upside down and then leave.
C.M. Stunich
#20. All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.
Richard Brautigan
#21. I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.
Shane Claiborne
#22. Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore
#23. A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
Carl F. H. Henry
#24. Let me know right away
if I'm disturbing you.
he said
as he stepped inside my door,
and I'll leave the way I came.
Not only do you disturb me,
I answered,
You turn my whole world
upside down.
Welcome.
Eeva Kilpi
#25. I just want someone I can count on - a man who will turn the world upside down to help me find a slice of happiness because he loves me that much.
Dannika Dark
#26. Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself. Are you really ready to see that vision?
Huey Freeman
#27. 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.
Josh Homme
#28. The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
David Jeremiah
#31. 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
#32. A journey need not be long, in terms of time, to turn everything upside down. A day or two in a strange place can change your life
Jan Kjaerstad
#33. When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
Mark Cuban
#34. You make my frown turn upside down and now my worries are gone.
Owl City
#35. At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
Susanne Bier
#36. If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
Lynda Barry
#37. To understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
Robert Fulghum
#38. That small freckle postulates a grin on my face:
see to it that midnight reeks insomniac on your eyes;
I turn the pillow upside down to not smell my breath again
Is there, aside from my memory, for you a better place?
Ashfaq Saraf
#39. The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
Leymah Gbowee
#40. Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.
Kristin Hannah
#41. Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
Alber Elbaz
#42. Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.
Tom Robbins
#43. 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
#44. The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.
Marge Piercy
#45. But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.
Fatema Mernissi
#46. Life has typhoons. They come and turn everything upside down. But you still have to standup because the next storm may be around the corner.
Nadia Hashimi
#47. 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
#48. Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.
Kyo Maclear
#49. 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
#50. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
#51. While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside down," that it is not necessarily amiss to turn a fellow upside down if that in fact straightens out his thinking.
Louis O. Kelso
#52. 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.
#53. I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.
Ella Henderson
#54. Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his head in her lap. "You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?"
She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best.
Christine Feehan
#55. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)
Henry Miller
#56. Speech: 1. Tell the truth. Don't lie or turn the truth upside down. 2. Don't exaggerate. 3. Be consistent. This means no double-talk: speaking about something in one way to one person and in an opposite way to another for selfish or manipulative reasons.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. Truth is dangerous. Its so painful and unnecessary. But if you find the courage to face it - it will turn your world upside down and make you a better man.
M.K. Tasker
M.K. Tasker
#58. The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.
Cassandra Clare
#59. I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
Tibor Kalman
#60. Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.
Taylor Branch
#61. All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?
Paul Valery
#63. We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
Erwin McManus
#64. 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
#65. The Lappell, Miss Rossi ... Have the power to turn your fate, upside down. We. See. All.
Angela Richardson
#66. If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.
Peter Stormare
#67. That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
Eva Longoria
#68. The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.
Spider Robinson
#69. We were Dex and Perry and our relationship seemed to thrive on the universe being out of order. Either that or our relationship actually caused the world to turn upside down. It was hard to say.
Karina Halle
#70. I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.
Anzia Yezierska
#71. There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.
Cliff Richard
#72. It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Christopher Morley
#73. Blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challenged
me at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning.
Kim Harrington
#74. If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.
Woody Allen
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