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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. -- Edmund Burke
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. -- Walt Whitman
The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else. -- William Westmoreland
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.' -- Michael K. Williams
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on. -- George Michael
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. -- Andy Grove
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. -- Mikhail Lermontov
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. -- Henry Rollins
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. -- Robert Burns
The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to. -- Rebecca Solnit
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! -- Robert Peel
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. -- Jimmy Carter
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. -- Max Born
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. -- Charles Trevelyan
This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. -- Rob Portman
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later? -- Bono
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. -- Washington Irving
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor. -- Condoleezza Rice
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. -- Kevin Kelly
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves. -- Joshua Slocum
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. -- Alexander Hamilton
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss. -- Sharon Salzberg
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. -- Nikola Tesla
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. -- Henry Grunwald
To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s. -- Frank Gaffney
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. -- Vladimir Putin
To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better. -- Mike Mills
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. -- Erica Jong
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century. -- Walter Cronkite
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish. -- Elie Wiesel
Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world -- Jimmy Carter
When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy. -- T.F. Hodge
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. -- Walt Whitman
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent. -- Michael K. Williams
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. -- Alexander Hamilton
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. -- Georges Bataille
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. -- Susan Abulhawa
If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition. -- Gary A. Klein
The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind. Elena, why is Dmitri naked? -- Nalini Singh
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... -- John Naisbitt
Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times. -- Julie B. Beck
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. -- James Russell Lowell
Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ. -- M. Russell Ballard
Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines. -- Colleen Houck
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy. -- John P. Kotter
Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane. -- Marianne Williamson
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance -- Rumi
Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall. -- Harold E. Puthoff
Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable. -- Laura Miller
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. -- Kevin Kelly
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The Light Queenâ??s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again -- Kiersten White
The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks. -- Elizabeth Jane Weston
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind. -- Denise Levertov
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices -- Hannah More
Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy. -- Hany Abu-Assad
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides. -- June Hunt
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. -- Henry James
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe. -- Henry Kissinger
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. -- Margaret Mitchell
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him. -- Lynn Austin
I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school. -- Marc Almond
I've been thrown into a turbulent triangle, but even though I have deep feelings for Shiray doesn't mean my feelings will disappear for Melanie immediately. Fate has really dealt me a cruel hand of cards. -- B. Truly
Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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