In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife, Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place Amid the tumult of reverberant… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
