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  • Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.

    Water   Flying   Trying  
    "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.
  • If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

    Crazy   Sleep   Degrees  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.

    Mean   Doe   World  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

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

  • When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.

    Source: salvage.zone
  • Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

  • As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

    Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.108
  • The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.73, Verso
  • A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

  • I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

    Self   Dust   Storm  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.

    Father   Names   Effort  
  • We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

    Kindness   Air   Giving  
  • The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

  • Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

    Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.287
  • Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

    Class   Gains   Energy  
    Source: www.raisethehammer.org
  • When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

    Yoga   Discipline   Water  
  • Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

  • Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

    Nike   Past   Air  
  • 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.

  • Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.
  • Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

    Ocean   Mind   Depth  
    Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

    Fall   Pilots   Drink  
    "Travel Editor’s Blog: Ryanair chief calls passengers idiots" by Jim Byers, www.thestar.com. September 5, 2012.
  • Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.

  • Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

    Wise   Moving   Men  
  • A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

    Life   Success   Wise  
    William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155
  • My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

    Sweat   Flying   Cabins  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

  • The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

    "China Rebukes Israel Ahead of Netanyahu Visit". edition.cnn.com. May 07, 2013.
  • My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.

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