Maelstrom Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths…
— Marlon Brando
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
— Zachary Quinto
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Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?
— Jeremy Clarkson
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I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the…
— John Keegan
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No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British…
— Barbara Tuchman
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
— Harold Pinter
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Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human…
— Pope Francis
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There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
— William Faulkner
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Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the…
— Steven Pinker
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Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give…
— Herman Melville
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Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You…
— Derek Landy
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The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a…
— Thomas Nagel
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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.
— Ellen Kushner
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If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone,…
— Peer Steinbruck
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I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up…
— Samantha Power
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The most damage I did was to myself and to the people who got caught in the maelstrom. The worst thing that happened was the…
— Charlie Sheen
Who Wrote These Maelstrom Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Maelstrom Quotes as follows: