Upend Quotes

#1. The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.

A.E. Samaan

#3. I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Mike White

#4. I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Fiona Maazel

#5. Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright.

Ann Voskamp

#6. If you want a president who will upend the status quo in Washington, D.C., and appoint justices of the Supreme Court who will uphold the Constitution, we have but one choice, and that man is ready. This team is ready. Our party is ready and when we elect Donald Trump, the 45th president.

Mike Pence

#7. Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

Anita Shreve

#8. I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Anne Fadiman

#9. Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

A.E. Samaan

#10. I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.

Richard Marshall

#11. Just as life will upend you, so will love.

Christine Caine

#12. Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.

Suze Orman

#13. The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Rebecca West

#14. The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Victor Hugo

#15. The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

Mark Twain

#16. If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Richard Branson

#18. By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

Adam Ross

#19. Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

Kate Jacobs

#20. The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

Said Seyam

#21. Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#22. A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.

Anonymous