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.
The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life. . . the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.
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.
I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms. . . The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.
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.
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
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.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
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.
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.
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
