Quotes About Turmoil

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.

Since I'm a professional communicator, I think I instinctively cling to doing what I do best, even in times of crisis and turmoil.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.

You want to see someone having turmoil or falling in love or out of love; that's what makes good TV.

There was a lot of turmoil in my family.

I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

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Molly grabbed a vase off the mantel and flung it at the wall, knocking it into a painting of a mountain scene. The vase shattered and the picture frame swayed back and forth on the wall, taunting her with an image of what life was supposed to be like. . .

Nowhere is there a sense of peace.

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him.

People have gone wild," Cressida murmurs. We

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk.