Quotes About Turmoil

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)

He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.

This city,' said George, 'is going to hell in a handcart.

Jen was in turmoil; she was grappling with self-esteem issues and a failed attempt at anorexia. I was in the right place at the right time, and the gods were finally ready to cut me some slack.

It is not possible for a man to banish all fear of the essential questions of life unless he understands the nature of the universe and unless he banishes all consideration that the fables told about the universe could be true. Therefore a man cannot enjoy full happiness, untroubled by turmoil, unless he acts to gain knowledge of the nature of things.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

Upset? I'm not upset. You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood....

Upped but mentally disjointed.

inner conflicts that kept him

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

We can contain such secret misery, perversion.

Some worried about appearing to overreact to what so far had been relatively modest market turmoil.

All this financial turmoil had direct consequences for Main Street America.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

Drama holds you back.

De modo que puede que haya perdido la cabeza.

I think that's what it is, that it's all happened at once, so I have the emotional bends.

An angry stepson and a husband who was always away, no wonder she let her mind go to dark places.

Wars are being fought every day, even where armies are not on the march. And wars within wars. And wars behind wars.

Aber wie dem, der in einer schnellen Kreisbewegung drehend geworden, auch da noch, wenn er schon wieder still sitzt, die äussern Gegenstände mit ihm herum zu gehen scheinen: so wird auch das Herz, das zu heftig erschüttert worden, nicht auf einmal wieder ruhig.

In fact, the Protestant Reformation exemplifies, in a number of fascinating ways, many of the same concepts we raised earlier: the intensely political nature of events usually understood as being primarily religious in character. But again, religion is the vehicle of political confrontation and turmoil, not the cause. Political leaders attempt to maintain tight control over religion as a means to their own ends.

Lurching from cataclysm to disaster and from misfortune to calamity