Lucy Powell Quotes

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

It's a volatile time.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

People don't like to see instability.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.