Top 55 Quotes About Commotion
#1. And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
Alice Munro
#2. As a child, she'd thought all the noise and commotion was the most wild, wonderful game, but as she'd grown older, she understood why everyone rushed around so: they were chasing a story.
Jennifer Donnelly
#3. A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#4. He's my calm in commotion. He's the rebel smiling when the danger mounts. He's the guy daring to joke in the face of death.
Sarah Noffke
#6. For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was something of a moralist. But when he was on his deathbed, I was there - don't worry ... And when, in addition, it's a suicide! Lord, what a delightful commotion!
Albert Camus
#7. I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.
Stan Musial
#8. From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
Susie Orbach
#9. Somebody said my name, asked if I was okay. I didn't answer, the sound of the commotion dying around me as the heavy monkey of sleep rested its warm, hairy ass on my eyelids.
David Wong
#10. A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." Because
Paramahansa Yogananda
#11. His tremendous struggles caused such a commotion that our position could only be compared to that of men shooting Niagara in a cylinder at night.
Frank T. Bullen
#12. You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
Pat Gillick
#13. We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#15. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. Every comforting word is a command from a man of action ...
While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words ...
Sujit Lalwani
#17. Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks,
a stream unheard before,
and you are where
breathing is prayer.
Wendell Berry
#18. There was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: Now, Peter!
J.M. Barrie
#19. Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Marilu Henner
#20. What I don't understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
Damon Galgut
#21. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move ... similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
Honore De Balzac
#24. The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.
Leif Johansson
#25. Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#26. I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.
Darynda Jones
#27. You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#28. The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.
Alexander Hamilton
#29. From the commotion, Franks figured it had to be pretty impressive-looking, but then again, if they weren't easily impressed, they wouldn't be cultists to begin with. "Hurry!
Larry Correia
#30. It's not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.
Seanan McGuire
#31. As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.
Robert Heilbroner
#32. In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.
Damian Wampler
#33. A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#34. But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
#35. In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
George MacDonald
#36. This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life's painful commotion.
Edouard Leve
#37. Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#38. Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Plutarch
#39. That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.
Bob Boughner
#40. In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#41. In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.
Daniel Odier
#42. The last time I was this close to him, it was a commotion of touching. His hands, picking apart the rigid panels of my exoskeleton. His mouth, finding mine with the certainty of a meteor.
Brenna Yovanoff
#43. Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
Richard Ford
#44. How can you find the truth in the midst of noise, of chaos! If you want people not to find the truth, create noise, create disorder, create complexities and create confusion! Because simplicity and tranquillity are the paths leading to the truth! Where there is commotion, there is no thinking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
Jakob Bohme
#46. I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back ...
George Carlin
#47. I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
John Updike
#48. Tobryton cocked his head as he watched the commotion play put. "Didn't we send you to God out on that beach?" he said to Damon.
"He didn't want me. Next time He'd be happy with socks.
Gary Meehan
#50. A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
Zeno Of Citium
#51. Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.
Michael Singer
#52. It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.
Jerry Spinelli
#53. It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her guest editors was on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Elizabeth Winder
#54. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.
Michael Foley
#55. Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?
Anthony Liccione
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