Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. Edward Bellamy
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. Alfred de Vigny
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. John Quincy Adams
But the current convulsions arising out of the Arab Spring remind us that a just and lasting peace cannot be measured only by agreements between nations. It must also be measured by our ability to resolve conflict and promote justice within nations. Barack Obama
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream. Daniel O'Connell
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. N.T. Wright