Quotes About Upheaval

I wiped away the weeds and foam,I fetched my sea-born treasures home;But the poor, unsightly, noisome thingsHad left their beauty on the shore,With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Above all, her transformation of China was carried out without her engaging in violence and with relatively little upheaval.

But like all simple things, once you add the human element, all hell breaks loose.

And Callie said this as someone whose life was a train wreck inside of a crashing airplane inside of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.

At first I craved the stability of the regimen, but it became mundane, and all of a sudden I wanted chaos.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,

When democracy gets old and tired, it demands a little chaos to refresh itself.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time, and I wonder if your friend didn't find himself in the throes of some sort of upheaval. Maybe he really did destroy his life's work. Maybe he revealed himself with all his inherent contradictions towards the end, and became a true human being in the best sense of the word.

My God. What's happened?

History is a relay of revolutions.

You might not be the devil, but you can certainly raise hell.

I've lived through my share of ups and downs, I guess. And great changes like we're having now, those always bring up the upheaval of previous ones we thought we'd put to rest. I've learned to prepare for that.... Eventually I learned to say 'thy will be done.

There is nothing like a Revolution for making people conservative.