Quotes of Upheaval - somelinesforyou

“ For each of us, there are certain parallelisms between our intellect, our habits, and our character, which develop without interruption and are broken only by life's great upheavals. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Life's strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on. Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies and court emotional upheaval. ”

- Marsha Sinetar

“ This is one of these things where, yes, something may have occurred before this one earthquake, but we don't see that kind of signal everywhere before big earthquakes. ”

- David Schwartz

“ I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ California is more highly populated and so earthquakes matter more to the population, but here we get many more earthquakes. ”

- Roger Smith

“ In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country. ”

- Hendrik W. Van Loon

“ Throughout recorded time… there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered… ”

- George Orwell

“ Hiccups in the international business scene are not new to us. Wedgwood china has survived upheavals before-the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the world wars. We do have a sense of continuity. ”

- Arthur Bryan

“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”

- Peter Drucker
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