Top 41 Turvy Quotes
#1. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
Helen Keller
#2. My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
Louisa May Alcott
#4. A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
Anthony Kiedis
#5. As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.
Helen Lawrenson
#6. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.
George Meredith
#7. Men's activities are occupied into ways
in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
William James
#8. Has the world become so topsy-turvy that a living creature, whom the gift of reason makes divine, believes that his glory lies solely in possession of lifeless goods?
Boethius
#9. We are living in a topsy-turvy world, where all is confusion. But you may be sure that it is confusion with a plan - Satan's plan!
Billy Graham
#10. Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way.
Martin Amis
#11. As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
Jurgen Moltmann
#12. The scream lasted for about a heartbeat, and then recognition flooded in - and relief.
"Oliver?" Great. She was relieved to see Oliver. The world was officially topsy-turvy, cats
were living with dogs, and life as she knew it was probably over.
Rachel Caine
#13. I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.
Nick Harkaway
#15. America having changed to benefit them, their accounts suddenly cleared, they reverted to the only actions that still seemed mercenary in this topsy-turvy landscape: They rode the countryside like desperadoes, helping people.
Alden Bell
#16. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
Mike Yaconelli
#17. But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.
Jonathan Swift
#18. For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.
Lesley Manville
#19. The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus
#20. That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
Seneca The Younger
#21. Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Margaret Of Valois
#22. It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay
Andrew Simms
#23. What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.
Agatha Christie
#24. The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
Euripides
#25. Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
Robert Breault
#26. The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
Benjamin Graham
#27. I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.
Michael Oren
#28. It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
Lesley Howarth
#29. I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.
Sophia Myles
#30. There are no circumstances in the world that determined action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell, and even those will dissolve and change, I am told, into the infirmary compartment, at any rate, for the man who can fast with resolution.
H.G.Wells
#31. I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
Charlie Rich
#32. As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
Sylvia Fraser
#33. If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.
Britt Robertson
#35. Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.
Derek Sivers
#36. He heard a woman call out for her children in the flat accent that said States to him, East Coast, North. And seemed so out of place here. Did his voice have that same slightly-out-of-tune sound to it? Here voices should lilt and flow and have old music under each word.
Nora Roberts
#37. ... it would matter ... to the tens of thousands of young Americans ... who would ... be invited to put on uniforms, fly to the other side of the world, spread their nether cheeks, and sit down on the big green dildo that was Vietnam.
Stephen King
#38. God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
Oswald Chambers
#39. Every man and woman is distinct from every other. But every mob is the same mob, whether composed of mineworkers or monarchs.
Daniel Polansky
#40. I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.
Alix Smith
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