Quotes About Turbulent

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

It's a volatile time.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Beirut è la Elizabeth Taylor delle città: folle, malandata, a pezzi, sulla via del tramonto, e sempre carica di drammaticità. Sposerà anche uno spasimante infatuato che le promette di renderle la vita più agiata, nonostante non sia all'altezza.

It fills me with such feelings that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

It is when the rich and well-educated and highly-privileged classes neglect their duties, when they neglect to study the interests, and conciliate the affections, and instruct the opinions, and champion the rights of the people, that the latter become discontented and turbulent, and fall into the hands of demagogues: the demagogue always steps in, where the patriot is wanting.

she was like some curious, primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition.

After the war, white loyalists joined with white patriots and Catawba Indians to destroy these and other black communities which had managed to take advantage of the turbulent times to fashion lives without masters, if only for a short period of time.107

The DARRYL part of him that exploded on stage made its spellbinding, turbulent presence most felt off stage when we made love. He was a symphony of contradiction; tender, yet fierce; sweet, yet riotous; impassioned, yet leisurely; giving, yet unquenchable. We lay there naked on the carpet a long time afterward, both too depleted—and too content—to move.

I was an emotional basket case.

We live in a... chaotic world.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild.

Democracies are turbulent. . . . Aristocracies are better adapted for peace and order, and accordingly were most admired by ancient writers; but they are jealous and oppressive.

Those who, from a pretended respect to antiquity, appeal at every turn to an original plan for the constitution, only cover their turbulent spirit and their private ambition under the appearance of venerable forms.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

He's lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.