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Quotes About Turbulence

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
~ Cicero
Life has very little even ground.
~ J.D. Robb
Tú crees que Simón te quiere todo el tiempo? Claro que no. Te quiere y te odia, todo está mezclado en su interior, aunque él no te lo dirá. No, él lo mantiene en secreto y finge que dentro de él todo es plácido, unas aguas remansadas y sin olas. Igual que su forma de hablar; nuestro famoso hombre racional. Pero créeme, el viejo Simón tiene tanto lío dentro como tú y como yo.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Bottom line? The fabric of the race's society is going to unravel, and if you think that's going to help in the war, you've got your head so far up your ass you're using your colon as a mouthpiece.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm sorry," Butch muttered. "I behaved unprofessionally. It won't happen again." Helania lifted her head off Boone's pec. "Are you kidding me? I want to shoot him, too." "No one's shooting anybody," Vishous cut in. Then he rolled his eyes. "And you know people be losin' their shit if I'm the one saying something like that.
~ J.R. Ward
Ci fu un silenzio tonante, ma solo nella stanza. Nella testa tatuata? Il suo cervello era attivissimo, ogni tipo di pensiero e immagine tormentavano la sua coscienza, era come se la sua materia grigia fosse diventata una scimmia e stesse lanciando merda per tutta la gabbia.
~ J.R. Ward
Jesus Christ. This evening, which hadn't even started out so well, had turned into a sixteen-car pileup on the road to relationshipville.
~ J.R. Ward
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
~ Jack Kerouac
Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.
~ Jack Kerouac
It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.
~ Demetri Martin
War is like night, she said. It covers everything.
~ Elie Wiesel, Dawn
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
~ Pieter Geyl
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
~ Bernard Kouchner
Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.
~ Bob Hope
War is not nice.
~ Barbara Bush
Imprisoned peace sets the war free
~ Munia Khan
War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.
~ christoforos darbinian
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
~ Harriet Tubman
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!
~ Swami Vivekananda
It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.
~ Sylvia Nasar
faster," Trey says, over his shoulder. "Don't give it a chance to get holda you." "This is as fast as I go. Not all of us are built like jackrabbits." "Moose, more like." "You remember what I told you about manners?" Cal demands. Trey snorts and keeps moving. They pass between gorse bushes, around old turf-cutting scars, under a sheer cliffside where tufts of
~ Tana French
Chaos has sexy arms...
~ Ted David Harris