Tumult Quotes
55 quotes by 47 authors
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such…
— Kate Chopin
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent…
— Francois Fenelon
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
— William Butler Yeats
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of…
— Edgar Guest
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
— Thomas Jefferson
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of…
— Dante Alighieri
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic…
— Georges Bataille
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I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.
— Danny Bonaduce
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of…
— Khalil Gibran
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
— Augustus William Hare
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We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get…
— Rob Brezsny
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
— Ann Radcliffe
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
— August Wilson
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear…
— Richard Harding Davis
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every…
— John Millington Synge
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Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean…
— Gerald May
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The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
— William Wordsworth
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