Top 100 World Upside Down Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
John Lydon
#3. 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
#4. You can't just turn someone's world upside down and then leave.
C.M. Stunich
#5. Everything. I have done everything you wanted ... You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening ... I have reordered time ... I have turned the world upside down ... And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
A.C.H. Smith
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.
Rosie Pugh
#9. A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
Carl F. H. Henry
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,
David Frost
#13. 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
#14. We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
David Jeremiah
#15. Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
Eric Clapton
#16. 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
#17. [The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?
Morris L. West
#18. Proclaiming resurrection turns the world upside down (cf. Acts 17:1-9) and holds out to the poor and lowly the hope of being vindicated while posing a worrisome prospect to those who have already received their consolation in the present life (cf. Luke 6:24).322
Ellen F. Davis
#19. To understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
Robert Fulghum
#20. The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham
#21. Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.
Kristin Hannah
#22. 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
#24. Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.
Jory John
#25. 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
#26. I learned in English class about surrealists. It was the first time I wanted to throw myself up so I could be marked present. Surrealism turns the whole world upside down.
A.S. King
#27. Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless
Katherine Rundell
#28. 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.
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. On the Cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. Jesus Christ turns the values of the world upside down.
Timothy Keller
#33. We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...
Calvin Miller
#34. All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down," he says, voice heated. "I didn't know what to do.
Katie Klein
#36. I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
#37. The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.
Billy Graham
#38. 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
#39. Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin
#40. That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
Eva Longoria
#41. 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
#42. Live Aid turned our world upside down.
John Deacon
#43. 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
#44. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
John Gould
#45. One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. I don't feel bad about missing that.
Haruki Murakami
#46. The world will be upside down forever. We just have to come to terms with that.
A.S. King
#47. 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
#48. You never know when, and you never know who, but someday a stranger will burst through the door of your life and transform it utterly. The world will be turned upside down, and you will be happier for it.
Cassandra Clare
#49. Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!
Jim Sturgess
#50. What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?
Search
#51. We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.
Billy Graham
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I know that whenever I feel my world turning
upside down, nothing grounds me like a manicure.
Lauren Kate
#55. In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
Kristina McMorris
#56. It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
Vince Flynn
#57. When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.
Leon Brown
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
Billy Graham
#61. My world had gone from normal to magical in only a few days. Everything I'd once believed to be true had been turned upside down, and even though it was crazy and possibly dangerous, I loved every second of it.
Michelle Madow
#62. I'm going down! Because you ain't around, baby, my whole world's upside down!
Mary J. Blige
#63. 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
#64. When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective
Karen Salmansohn
#65. 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
#66. In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
Bing Gordon
#67. It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.
Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
Holly Black
#68. The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus
#69. 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
#70. 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.
#71. Lying on her cushiony lap, I gaze into the upside down world. I see my dreams in her eyes.
Faraaz Kazi
#72. The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
Leymah Gbowee
#73. In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care ...
Alex Scarrow
#74. And when I die bury me upside down so the whole world can
Kiss my ass
Open my mouth
Pull my tongue
Stretch my arms
Stretch my cold, proud middle finger
Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra
#75. In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone
Kayla Krantz
#76. My world had turned upside down again and again, which should mean it's right side up now, but it isn't. Everything's different, everything's the same.
Jael McHenry
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. It was almost as if a 3 a.m. religion existed, one that was self-reliant and relished how the world can be lived upside-down but still lived to its fullest potential.
James Altucher
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.
Jon Foreman
#84. The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor.
Anne Frank
#85. Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.
Ken Bruen
#86. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.
Haruki Murakami
#87. You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.
Emilio Estevez
#88. The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
Billy Sunday
#89. No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose The World Turned Upside Down.
Sarah Vowell
#90. Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.
Michelle Madow
#91. The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
Tori Amos
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles
Mark Salzman
#95. 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
#96. The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.
Cassandra Clare
#97. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away.
Ray Bradbury
#98. 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
#99. She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future.
John Grisham
#100. 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
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