Quotes of Turmoil - somelinesforyou

“ The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ”

- Macneile Dixon

“ Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ”

- John Milton

“ By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. ”

- Kenneth Baker

“ There's no turmoil. There is no confusion. ”

- Larry Brown

“ Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. ”

- Ernst Jünger

“ Anarchism is democracy taken seriously. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. ”

- Thurgood Marshall

“ There is no greater evil than anarchy. ”

- Sophocles

“ Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ”

- George Santayana

“ Our own beliefs create inner turmoil or harmony and lifelong learning. If we can assimilate every event as instruction, nothing is wasted, no experience is for naught. ”

- Marsha Sinetar

“ Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges. ”

- Bob Paris

“ What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ”

- Lord Byron

“ We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. ”

- Amelia E. Barr

“ If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life. ”

- Josephine Rathbone

“ I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil. ”

- Sting

“ Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. ”

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

“ All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it. ”

- Walter Anderson

“ When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. ”

- Dale Carnegie
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