Turbulence quotes

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
-- John F. Kennedy

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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
-- Will Durant

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I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
-- Samantha Bond

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In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.
Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones
If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness,
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away... It's a game.
But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.
I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"
The road to success is long and up hill all the way