Quotes about Turbulence

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

And stories are all about conflict.

Horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir the Hell within him; for within him Hell he brings, and round about him, nor from Hell one step, no more than from himself, can fly by change of place.

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.

Energy out of control is dangerous; energy under control is powerful . . .Science takes a Niagara River with its violent turbulence and transforms it into electrical energy to illuminate a million homes and to turn the productive wheels of industry. [God] does in the spiritual realm what science does in the physical realm.

Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II.

My friend Jon likes it when an airplane hits heavy turbulence. His insight is worth sharing. "The odds of a plane crashing from turbulence are essentially zero, so I sit and enjoy it. It's like a ride at an amusement park.