Quotes About Turbulence

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

He wanted to protect her and fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain, deepening the agony.

Uhm, Kevin..." "Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here." Yes, this was definitely Forced Sex. Thank goodness .

It wants to send us end over end so that what was up will be down.

you can feel something in the air, the rolling boil of a pot about to run over. Not

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance. How hard to control such a mind! (I. 174)

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

the feeling of false stability.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.

my blood is soiled and a dark angel sits in my brain

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

A prosperidade ocorreu quando os frutos da produtividade foram amplamente partilhados; a inimizade, a turbulência política e mesmo a guerra declarada foram o resultado de uma desigualdade crescente. É óbvio que a generosidade é a estratégia robusta.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

I can't do it, Gideon! I can't make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you loathed me like poison the next!" Gideon said, after a brief pause, "I'd much rather be kissing you the whole time than loathing you, but you don't exactly make it easy for me.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

My mental flowchart was a mess.

but quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.