Best Tumult Quotes
55 Tumult quotes by 47 unique authors
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Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
— Samuel Johnson
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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
— Patience Strong
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented…
— Charles de Gaulle
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins.…
— Katharine Weber
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If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are…
— Ann M. Dibb
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Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her…
— Mervyn Peake
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My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
— Richard Ford
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In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
— Ron Fournier
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Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the…
— James C. Collins
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have…
— Charles de Gaulle
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
— E. O. Wilson
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Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives.…
— Henry B. Eyring
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in…
— Thomas Paine
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!…
— Kate Chopin
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
— William Butler Yeats
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things.…
— Dante Alighieri
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O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold…
— Amy Carmichael
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And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set…
— Henry B. Eyring
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The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.
— Martin Luther
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But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will…
— Charlotte Bronte
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none…
— Victor Hugo
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great…
— Samuel Beckett
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The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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