Turmoil Quotes
178 Turmoil quotes by 162 unique authors
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In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
— Khaled Hosseini
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
— Ian Mcewan
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Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is…
— Gary Snyder
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Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,…
— Ted Hughes
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries…
— Paul Brunton
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under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
— Orson Scott Card
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Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock…
— Keith Richards
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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
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But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
— Sara Shepard
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I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...
— Joss Whedon
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Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also…
— Rob Lowe
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
— Lionel Shriver
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There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind.…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one…
— Jim Butcher
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Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I…
— Milan Kundera
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