Quotes About Tumult

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

I always end up in these volatile situations.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

Fight in the cause of God Those who fight you, But do not transgress limits; For God loveth not transgressors. 191. And slay them Wherever ye catch them, And turn them out From where they have Turned you out; For tumult and oppression Are worse than slaughter; But fight them not At the Sacred Mosque, Unless they (first) Fight you there; But if they fight you, Slay them. Such is the reward Of those who suppress faith. 192.

The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult...So much only of life as I know by experience...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day. . . . He rose slowly. 'What a frightful row,' he said. He crossed the room gently to look at the sick man, and returning, said to me, 'He does not hear.' 'What! Dead?' I asked, startled. 'No, not yet,' he answered, with great composure. Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, 'When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages—hate them to the death.' He remained

It was rather like a forced-on numbness of spirit. The long, long stress of a gale does it; the suspense of the interminably culminating catastrophe; and there is a bodily fatigue in the mere holding on to existence within the excessive tumult; a searching and insidious fatigue that penetrates deep into a man's breast to cast down and sadden his heart, which is incorrigible, and of all the gifts of the earth - even before life itself - aspires to peace.

He's back! He's back! Who's back? shouted someone else. Who is it? What does it mean? What should we do? Are we on fire? Get up and run, damn it! Everybody get up and run!

commotion and flurry.

One of those nasty hushes had descended on the place, a sort of missile crisis sort of hush. Even

The world is a pile of grunge.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion

All was confusion, ignorance, clambering and exhaustion.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,A lonely impulse of delightDrove to this tumult in the clouds.

Mi desorden es atroz.

You would have thought that I had left 11 corpses on the steps of a funeral home.

Our forecastle, as usual after a liberty-day, was a scene of tumult all night long, from the drunken ones. They had just got to sleep toward morning, when they were turned up with the rest, and kept at work all day in the water, carrying hides, their heads aching so that they could hardly stand. This is sailor's pleasure.