Turbulent Times Quotes

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

As we face the headwinds of our troubled and turbulent times, let us always be inspired by the legacy of Kofi Annan - and guided by the knowledge that he will continue speaking to us, urging us on toward the goals to which he dedicated his life and truly moved our world.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

JACL has always been at the very forefront of making sure citizens' civil rights remain intact. They fight wholeheartedly against discrimination, prejudice and racial bias and they always provide a calm voice during turbulent times.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.

Looking back upon the memories of the last 50 years. I perceive how calamities from within and aggression from without have come upon us in relentless succession, and that my life had never engaged a moment's respite from anxiety.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

We live in a... chaotic world.

The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

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.

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.

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

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.