Quotes About Turbulence

I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

In war, no variable is more important, and less easy to control, than the element of surprise.

As the panic worsened,

Still, the situation was far from normal.

Me parece que estoy viajando por el interior de un cerebro atacado de violentísima jaqueca.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room.

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.

Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.

This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it.

War is not nice.

It was the zero bullshit. If you ever met a middle school girl, you know what they are: volcano eruptions of bullshit. Every minute a new emergency, the best friend turned enemy. Some