A Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German - Theologian
February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Spider Robinson

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

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

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

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

Robert Fulghum

They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

Monique Wittig

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

David Jeremiah

Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!

Jim Sturgess

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.

Richard Brautigan

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

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

Leymah Gbowee

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

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.

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

Eva Longoria

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

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