World Is Upside Down Quotes

#1. The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

Leymah Gbowee

#2. - 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

#3. Ripples in the upside down lake of the void ... The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down

Jack Kerouac

#4. 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

#5. Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless

Katherine Rundell

#6. I'm not moping. (Ewan)
Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you're frowning, and if you're frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you're moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you're happy. (Nora)

Kinley MacGregor

#7. Everything starts out as just friends, right? Everything. But then things change and suddenly you're in love with someone and your whole world is flipped upside down ... But you always have good intentions. Everything always starts out as just friends.

Alysha Speer

#8. 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

#9. Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

Shel Silverstein

#10. 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

#11. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Martin Amis

#12. This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down

Walker Percy

#13. All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down?
Is this real or am I dreaming?

Dave Matthews

#15. It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

Glenn Beck

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

Tom Peters

#17. The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

#19. And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Vicki Pettersson

#20. The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Raoul Vaneigem

#21. The world is turned upside down, I love it. It's like we're in a snow globe and God decided he wanted to see a blizzard so he shook us all the fug up.

John Green

#22. Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

Peter Kingsley

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?

Search

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Mother Teresa

#30. 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

#31. A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity

Carl F. H. Henry

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Billy Sunday

#35. We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. You think I don't know that? Do you think I like feeling like this, like my world has been turned upside down? Even though you and I have this - whatever it is - doesn't mean I care any less about him,

Bella J.

#37. The normalcy of it almost kills me. Even in a world turned upside down, a world of war and insanity, people hang their clothing; they fold their pants; they make their beds.
It is the only way.

Lauren Oliver

#38. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Kenneth More

#39. 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

#40. Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.

Kathleen Tessaro

#41. I am tired of fighting, of hitting and being hit. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. It's the upside-down nature of life.

Lauren Oliver

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

Jory John

#43. 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