Quotes About Upheaval

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution".

If there were another word more all-embracing than revolution we would use it.

The first century of the plague had seen the country turned upside down. In the twilight years of Edward III it seemed that nothing could damage the greatness of the Plantagenet royal estate. But the world of the village went from impoverished claustrophobia to traumatized infection. A hundred years later, everything had been upended, courtesy of King Death.

Here's a pretty state of things!Here's a pretty how-de-do!

The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.

The Western world, from the Reformation until 1848, was undergoing a continuous upheaval which may be called the Rights-of-Man Revolution. In 1848, this movement began to transform itself into nationalism east of the Rhine. In France, the association had existed since 1792, and in England from the beginning; in America, it had existed since 1776. The nationalist aspect of the movement has gradually overpowered the Rights-of-Man aspect, but this latter was at first the more important.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Now. 1973. Exactly. He tipped back in his chair, his arms folded across his chest. So much changed in the sixties, the war, the rights of women, civil rights, the vote, protest against the war. On and on. I was getting my Ph.D. in Chicago and you were in college but that time was upheaval with a purpose. Now we've drawn back into our shells, wondering what we have done and what do we believe.? And is there any purpose to our lives?

Upheaval was a fact of life. You could either be defeated by it or take advantage. Walking into one's so-called "destiny" was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.

THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

But Lydia's kiss had up-ended the world and Jean didn't know how to go on. Things were altered in a way she couldn't understand.

My heart breaks to see the world in such turmoil.

Well if this be order give me a wheelbarruh of chaos and a pop bottle full of shook up rattlesnakes

I just don't like my world disturbed without warning.

Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up !

El mundo no se pone patas arriba tan fácilmente. Las que están patas arribas son las personas.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter

We have all known it: even when closed in, the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar. Through walls and windows we receive the tremors of the time; you might win a moment's respite, but you cannot withdraw completely from the world.

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

My grandfather was seventy-three. Over the course of his life, the definition and requirements of manhood had been subject to upheaval and reform. Like the electoral laws of his adopted home state, the end result was a mess.