A Quote by Marthe Bibesco

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Marthe Bibesco

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Backwards Centuries Down Her History Immortality Life Sort Stretched Ten Through Turned Upside Upside Down

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Marthe Bibesco
French - Writer
January 28, 1886 - November 28, 1973

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

Spider Robinson

I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

Albert Brooks

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

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

Sonali Bendre

Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.

Ben Eine

Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.

Ally Carter

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

Shams Tabrizi

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Jodi Picoult

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

Taboo

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

John Heider

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.