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Quotes About Turmoil

And Callie said this as someone whose life was a train wreck inside of a crashing airplane inside of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.
~ Karin Slaughter
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
~ Maxim Gorky
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
~ Marisha Pessl
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
~ Florence Welch
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
~ Daniel Johns
They make a desolation and call it peace.
~ Agha Shahid Ali
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
~ Dorothy Parker
Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
~ Patrick Henry
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
~ Salman Rushdie
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
~ Julie Christie
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
~ Frank Herbert
Our greatest ally in the Pakistan region of turmoil is the moderate Muslim majority, who we must reach out to and embrace if we ever are to have peace for our children.
~ Greg Mortenson
Inner turbulence leads to anger.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.
~ Debasish Mridha
When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.
~ Helen O'Reilly
The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.
~ Michael Hudson
It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.
~ Alfred Goodwin
There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)
~ Lucretius
In those years from 1893 to 1896, Congress was thrown into turmoil by the demand for "the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one" when the commercial ratio was about thirty to one.
~ William Allen White
how it is; your violent complainers
~ William Beckford