Quotes About Turbulence

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Viewed nostalgically from the perspective of the early interwar years, Germany before 1914 seemed to many to have been a haven of peace, prosperity and social harmony. Yet beneath its prosperous and self-confident surface, it was nervous, uncertain and racked by internal tensions.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but SHAPED by by the turbulence that washes over her.

without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core

You've been nothing but a pain in the ass," she said as she grabbed her purse, just about the only thing she had since we'd kidnapped her. "No wonder Rachel doesn't like you. I don't like you, and I like everyone.

Begun this Clone War has.

just as in 1914 the murder of an Austrian archduke sparked the First World War, so in 2018 some incident in the Syrian desert or an unwise move in the Korean peninsula might ignite a global conflict.

Judgment is the constant evaluation of things as right or wrong, good or bad. When you are constantly evaluating, classifying, labeling, analyzing, you create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue. This turbulence constricts the flow of energy between you and the field of pure potentiality. You literally squeeze the "gap" between thoughts.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

John watched me, dark eyes inscrutable. his shoulders rose as he inhaled through his nose. He was about to say something like I am so sorry or I had no idea or even You are a terrible person . In which case, I was going to lose it. There was a reason I did not talk about this. He said, "I feel sorry for the officers on that call.

I'm a mess," she said. "By every sense of the word.

II y avait en elle un manque d'équilibre entre le sang et les nerfs, une sorte de détraquement du cerveau et du cÅ"ur, qui la faisait vivre en dehors de la vie ordinaire.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

Au fil des ans, des crises et des guerres, la terre libanaise est devenue un champ ouvert où se livraient, directement ou par personnes interposées, d'innombrables combats

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Djugashvili had a way of leaving places under a cloud after some ugly incident, brought on in part by his own tendency to become embroiled with others.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto

The wind would come down a thousand miles and pound on the house and the sash would rattle and inside him something would be big and coiling slow and clotting till he would hold his breath and the blood would beat in his head with a hollow sound as though his head were a cave as big as the dark outside. He wouldn't have any name for what was big inside him. Maybe there isn't any name.