A Quote by Seneca the Younger

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Seneca the Younger

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Disaster Everyone Everything Greed Luxury Madness Poverty Turns Understood

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Robert Breault

To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year.

Lara Dutta

Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

Mike Yaconelli

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Euripides

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Mel Giedroyc

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Things went topsy-turvy when two of my dogs died all of a sudden due to a parvovirus attack.

Anupama Parameswaran

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Jürgen Moltmann

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Margaret of Valois

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Karl Kraus

Suddenly, relationships go topsy-turvy, and guys often don't understand what's going on. I think a lot of men are in that boat.

James Tupper

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Louisa May Alcott

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.

Lesley Manville

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.