Quotes About Turbulence

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

the shipwreck of my nervous storms.

But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.

A week is a long time in politics

as if the world were a pot on the boil and someone had taken its lid off and let the steam pour up wildly.

Ó, mit tudom én, mi van velem, mit csinálok, mit óhajt a szívem, ezer különféle indulat tépi szerteszét!

whirlwind of war.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

He looked up to see Ranea staring at him, her eyes brilliant with rage. She said, "You did this." "No. I was here." In hindsight, he probably shouldn't have smiled when he said it.

And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think.

I couldn't see it, but I was certain Priya kicked Jalaine beneath the table because Jalaine jumped in her seat, then shot Priya and angry scow.

Dar certurile erau doar la suprafata. Daca te scufunzi indeajuns sub un val, apa e inca linistita.

I'd had another disturbed night as I walked up and down the corridors of my mind, a mêlée of thoughts spinning on discordant cerebral hamster-wheels as they conspired to keep my brain alert but unproductive.

Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.

To fish in troubled waters.

It feels like I've got all the flames in hell burning in my head.

Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese...

He had no liking for war. It was a loud, messy, dangerous business.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.