Quotes About Turbulence

We have no future because our present is too volatile.

Shit," she said, small hand gesturing to encompass their situation. "Lots of it. Now. Hitting many fans. Large ones.

Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind.

May you always live in interesting times.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

But there is no calm soul in Russia.

It was one of those situations in which Mr Teal habitually felt himself drowning in the turgid waters of an unfathomable Weltschmerz. He glowered at Simon

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

Shit was getting geological, yo.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.

What seems so solid and certain is really part of the ceaseless pull-it-down-build-it-again pattern of history, where the turbulence of the past is recast as landmark, as icon, as tradition, as what we defend, what we uphold--until it's time to call in the wrecking ball.

Then he pointed to the top of the fire, where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an invisible shimmery heat that made the desert beyond seem to waver, like a mirage. Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. "It's a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven't figured 'em out yet," he said. "You-all got a little too close to it today.

A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.

I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes. • • •

I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

It's never good when you're in an airplane and it suddenly feels like you're outdoors.

What chaos is left in modern society is a precious commodity.

Qibli to see the heartbreaking look that swept across her face. She glanced down at her talons and