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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult. -- Erica Jong
My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. -- Richard Ford
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. -- E. O. Wilson
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. -- August Wilson
I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house. -- Danny Bonaduce
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. -- Ron Fournier
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 tumult. -- James C. Collins
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 love. -- Georges Bataille
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 confronted History? -- Charles de Gaulle
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 the steady roar of the passing army. -- Richard Harding Davis
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. -- Marie de France
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 beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! -- Kate Chopin
There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity. -- Ron Fournier
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn. -- James Howard Kunstler
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 day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. -- John Millington Synge
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. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments. -- Henry B. Eyring
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 rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult. -- Bryant H. McGill
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult. -- Ann Radcliffe
The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult. -- Martin Luther
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude -- Thomas Jefferson
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. -- William Wordsworth
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. -- George Herbert
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. -- Augustus William Hare
Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow -- Rupert Brooke
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music. -- Israel Zangwill
Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world. -- Patience Strong
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! -- Victor Hugo
Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. -- Don Williams
Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all. -- Sun Tzu
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. -- Tacitus
And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone! -- J. K. Rowling
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. -- Tacitus
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
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
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
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world. -- Bryant McGill
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 love." -- Georges Bataille
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. -- Jonathan Edwards
In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated. -- Sun Tzu
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. -- George Eliot
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 a thousand men. -- Khalil Gibran
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative. -- Calvin Coolidge
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 us from listening to him -- Francois Fenelon
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.... -- William Butler Yeats
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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 the less real for being invisible and impalpable. -- Victor Hugo
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. -- James Russell Lowell
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped. -- Celia Thaxter
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 indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again. -- Samuel Beckett

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