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Quotes About Upheaval

FUBAR, meaning "fucked up beyond all recognition.
~ Gene Kim
Please let us get back to a normal way of life, whatever it might be; these wars, revolutions, great historical upheavals might be exciting to men, but to women Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Women felt nothing but boredom. She was positive that every woman would agree with her: they were tired of crying, bored to death by all these noble words and noble feelings!
~ Irene Nemirovsky
What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell.
~ Isaac Asimov
trastocó la realidad y ya nada volvió a ser como antes.
~ Isabel Allende
To fish in troubled waters.
~ Matthew Henry
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.
~ Orson Bean
My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.
~ Jermaine Fowler
My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.
~ Adrianne Lenker
You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
~ Adolf Hitler
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
~ Jung Chang
It wants to send us end over end so that what was up will be down.
~ Susan Meissner
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
~ Peter Riegert
revolutionize
~ Napoleon Hill
Mountains are created by upheaval. I'm sure it doesn't look pretty at the time.
~ Neal Shusterman
Smoke rose into the sky in great, juddering pillars. In
~ Charles C. Mann
I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.
~ Jejomar Binay
This world is rigged with ruin.
~ Kevin Young
revolution was taking place in Negro society.
~ George S. Schuyler
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's typical at Real Madrid that we often seem to be going through a revolution.
~ Sergio Ramos
The status quo is simply unacceptable.
~ Brad Henry
The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.
~ Robert Roswell Palmer