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Quotes About Turmoil

There is no greater evil than anarchy.
~ Sophocles
We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.
~ Steve Wynn
The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
~ Nigella Lawson
Drama is not great when it's a roll off the curb into the gutter.
~ Agnes Moorehead
As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.
~ Garth Nix
I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.
~ Gary R. Renard
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.
~ Lauren Groff
We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.
~ Iyad Allawi
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
~ Sai Baba
There isn't any point to it. I'm not getting anywhere. No start, middle, or end. The children scream and I scream, and the noise we make goes out and down and round and round and round.
~ Samantha Hunt
My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet.
~ Samuel Hoffenstein
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
~ Samuel Hoffenstein
Under the guise of being a showpiece for the world where prosperity is as easily found as water in a stream, America, for all her ostensible beauty, has an ugly scar across her belly that she has tried repeatedly to suppress and keep hidden from curious onlookers. More than a few times she has almost been exposed, and this ugliness brought to light, but always another garment would quickly be thrown over the rough spot and all the turmoil and ugliness again blanketed. But not this time.
~ Sanyika Shakur
I wasn't possessed—I was insane!
~ Sara Gran
But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
~ Sara Shepard
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
~ Derek Jarman
That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
~ Hamza Yusuf
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
~ James MacArthur
I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.
~ Koki Hirota
Sometimes her heart and head are invaded by upheavals, analyses, syntheses, wrenching turmoil, bright hopes, crushed expectations, precipices around which thought wanders shivering and dazed, unable to make sense of anything. (Wartime Notebooks)
~ Marguerite Duras
Era una de esas épocas en que la razón humana se halla presa dentro de un círculo en llamas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar