Convulsed Quotes

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. - Jack Reed

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed. - Henry Thomas Buckle

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them; and We have made of water everything living, will they not then believe? / And We have made great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and We have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction. - Quran

And He has cast great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with you, and rivers and roads that you may go aright, / And landmarks; and by the stars they find the right way. - Quran