Quotes About Turmoil

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.

And then the storm of shit begins.

At the time I was living with a Mexican woman and it looked as if the relationship would be the death of her, and me, and the neighbors, and sometimes even the people who ventured to pay us a visit.

I want you to know how deeply I wish to translate those ideas into images, just to quiet down the turmoil of my brain.

I want you to know how deeply I wish to translate those ideas into images, just to quiet down the turmoil of my brain. (in a letter to Ingrid Bergman)

Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.

Because there is no fight like a church fight, all hell broke loose.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

Eliza's death, far from putting the whole situation to rest, only inflamed John's feelings anew, complicating his stormy relationship with his father.

All the pent-up frustrations produced by the accelerated change of the late nineteenth century were vented in spontaneous, often violent dissent.

It means disaster to the country, financial depression, and chaos.

leaving the Morgan family angry and bewildered.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Hay un momento en que todo viaje se convierte en una pesadilla»;

Todos llevamos dentro nuestro propio infierno, una posibilidad de perdición que es sólo nuestra, un dibujo personal de la catástrofe.

Un exterior traumáticamente gélido y por dentro las Ménades aullando.

It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.

PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.