Quotes About Unrest

No one was sleeping. The world had been stirred by a hot poker, and sparks of crazy were flying.

And closely akin [...] was the call still sounding in the depths of the forest. It filled him with a great unrest and strange desires. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what.

It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence. At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen–thrilling satisfaction. But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.

It was not a column, but a mob, an awful river that filled the street, the people of the abyss, mad with drink and wrong, up at last and roaring for the blood of their masters. I had seen the people of the abyss before, gone through its ghettos, and thought I knew it; but I found that I was now looking on it for the first time. Dumb apathy had vanished. It was now dynamic—a fascinating spectacle of dread.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

Rising fuel prices, growing agrarian distress, and unemployment are the three major issues to dominate the 2019 general elections.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Coruscant is in chaos, and Mas Amedda is trapped. He

America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets.

Of course it's the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they're happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

The hugely uneven distribution of wealth itself was forcing the country toward a boiling point. Add

O! Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause.

This may play well in certain extreme right- and left-wing political circles. But such unrest exacts a huge price on U.S. credibility abroad in all the challenging arenas summarized here, and in others yet to emerge. Political cannibalism at home will severely undercut the authority and credibility of America's role in the world. It will exacerbate U.S. efforts to manage a range of existing security issues and new ones yet unimagined.

There was certainly an improvement and any dissent or unrest was external – in the media and on radio phone-ins – rather than inside the dressing room. Some reactionary pundits even called for Pep's head.

It is no peace of mine

Normalcy has taken leave of the galaxy.

Although the working poor of New York would explode into the worst riot of American history in 1863

THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

Under feigned jest Are things conceal'd that else would breed unrest.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.