Quotes About Upheaval

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. You, don't be afraid.

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality.

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality.

Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.

Everything is still falling apart.

This was the goal of Project Mayhem, Tyler said, the complete and right-away destruction of civilization.

America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets.

This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging—bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

FUBAR." During our exchange, his leg jerked

I thought, This is where the day curdles.

No, I'm talking about you, Nathan. What right did you have to storm into my life and mess everything up?

mobs were the worst of our guts strangling our hearts.

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.

Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

Spirituality has always been about turning the world on its head.