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  • 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.

    Love   Romantic   Wise  
  • It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

    Wise   Men   Long  
  • 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.

    Jesus   Bumps   Arms  
  • It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

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

    Life   Order   Sound  
  • Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

    Children   Kids   Parent  
    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

    Book   Thinking   People  
  • 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.

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

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

    Men   Long   Doe  
  • 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.

    Vanity   Mind   Vexation  
    Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation
  • As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

    Sex   Confusing   Trying  
  • I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

    Men   Two   Topsy Turvy  
    George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.160, Library of Alexandria
  • The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

    "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Preface, p. vii, 1937.
  • The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

    Rivers   Sacred   Flow  
    "Medea". 409,
  • A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

    Father   School   Views  
  • 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.

    Men   Mind   Way  
    William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.
  • [My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then back again to Chaos, The Superstratum which will overlay us.

    Change   Science   Advice  
    LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212
  • What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.

    Reality   Views   Doubt  
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