Quotes About Turbulence

Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next fix is coming from

Grant was torn loose from his foot restraints and went sailing across the bridge, optic fibers popping loose.

If Grant hadn't been hanging on he would have been flung across the bridge again.

Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

a vast collection of electric charges in violent motion.

that strange turbulence that rises when you begin to wash up on the island of your own little self and you don't see how you could ever sustain yourself there.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Es curioso cómo la felicidad pura, sin adulterar, no deja poso en nuestros corazones, mientras que las aguas turbias de la tristeza manchan por doquier.

Anybody can manage order, a true master manages chaos.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

No, no son los pájaros. No es un pájaro el que expresa la turbia fiebre de la laguna, ni el ansia de asesinato que nos oprime cada momento, ni el metálico rumor de suicidio que nos anima cada madrugada.

the United States is preparing a bloody drama for Latin America

Mosca felt something enormous swell within the knotted stomach that she hid behind her fists. It seemed it must surge out of her like a wild, black wave, sweeping away stalls and strollers alike and biting the plaster from the walls.

Energy out of control is dangerous; energy under control is powerful . . .Science takes a Niagara River with its violent turbulence and transforms it into electrical energy to illuminate a million homes and to turn the productive wheels of industry. [God] does in the spiritual realm what science does in the physical realm.

Well if this be order give me a wheelbarruh of chaos and a pop bottle full of shook up rattlesnakes

The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president's most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.

but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready," Hester said.

I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

discipline in words and speech. Do not speak any word (from your side) that would create turbulence and turmoil in the minds of others. Even if you don't speak, some people get turbulent. That you are not responsible for, but from your side, do not speak. This is an oath you will take to begin with, for the next five days. Do not speak any harsh word. Don't let any harsh word come out of your mouth to anyone. Do not hurt with your words, for the Divine dwells in every heart.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.