Quotes of: Maelstrom Keyword

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Harold Pinter

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Zachary Quinto

You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.

The Maelstrom

Why all this death? You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Ellen McLaughlin

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

Fate is a tricky animal. Those who believe they harness it, often find a difficult beast to master.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

Rex Stout

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

Samantha Power

Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.

The Din in the Head

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

John Keegan

Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

Khu: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity’s maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe.

Guardians of the Akasha

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that ...

Steven Pinker

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

The Guns of August

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countr...

Peer Steinbruck

Very close, I want to hear your voice; and then I'll lose myself in the maelstrom of your eyes, your lips and your hair - you know it very well, you my beguiling siren and you rob me, mercilessly, of my thinking.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann