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Quotes About Tumult

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Donald Trump's presidency unleashed forces howling beneath our politics since the tumult of the 1960s. For decades, politicians stoked and exploited white resentment.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters.
~ Anonymous
Two years before, a rival claimant to the throne had assassinated the then reigning king and his sons, and since then, bloody war and tumult had raged. The new king was a powerful man, and had a great following of the worst and most self-seeking of the people. Neighboring countries had interfered for their own welfare's sake
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
~ Amy Tan
Bridget saw chaos.
~ Ann Brashares
This was a revolution waged by thinkers and debaters constantly prattling about the reasons for the war. Although they were "rebels," the Americans were very chatty about their revolution. By contrast, mob uprisings like the French Revolution are sparked by tumult, pandemonium, and violence, not thoughtful sermons and pamphlets. There
~ Ann Coulter
In full tumult the great afternoon current raced for Columbus Circle, where the mouth of midtown stood open and the skyscrapers gave back the yellow fire of the sun.
~ Saul Bellow
A volte mi prende qualcosa che non so definire: non è angoscia, non è desiderio, è un ignoto tumulto interno che minaccia di lacerarmi il petto, che mi stringe la gola.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
~ Antonin Artaud
The easiest way to get the chairperson to adjourn the session is to jointly create ruckus and commotion in a pre-decided fashion in the midst of deliberation and discussion.
~ Anuj Somany
An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In a period of political tumult, we grasp for quick certainties. We
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
~ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom. 'Why-why-she's like me! She understands how I feel'!
~ Margaret Mitchell
in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
~ Anne Fadiman
She was coming. She was moving close to the hall. He felt himself slip away from his body into pure listening; yes, it was she. All the sounds of the night rose to confuse him, yet he caught it; a low irreducible sound which she could not veil, the sound of her breathing, of the beat of her heart, of a force moving through space at tremendous and unnatural speed, causing the inevitable tumult amid the visible and the invisible.
~ Anne Rice
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
~ John Hendrick Bangs
IDisorder is infinitely deep.
~ John M. Harrison
Disorder is infinitely deep.
~ John M. Harrison
The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions And then it stops and undertakes to answer In the same tone of voice.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions. And then it stops and undertakes to answer in the same tone of voice. No one could tell the difference. Uninnocent, these conversations start, and then engage the senses, only half-meaning to. And then there is no choice, and then there is no sense; until a name and all its connotation are the same.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I watched and I learned. There is tumult, there is aggravation. There is love. For a mother, there is no such thing as excess.
~ Elizabeth Ehrlich
deep down there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me.
~ Elizabeth Strout
México es un perpetuo sobresalto.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte