Quotes About Chaos

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Furthermore, if the acquisitive impulse (euphemistically called "market forces") is not controlled, inequities in the distribution of food and other goods that do remain may deepen, giving rise to potential chaos and war without limits.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

You cannot get rid of the positive and negative balance. If you try to put on a facade for the world about how positive and upbeat you are, there will be chaos in your private life or your personal health.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

As I understood it, what really mattered was simply that some systems ('system' is just a jargon word for anything, like a swinging pendulum, or the Solar System, or water dripping from a tap) are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there is feedback, so that what a system does affects its own behaviour.

The lack of solutions to the Three-Body Problem is not caused by our human deficiencies as mathematicians, it is build into the laws of mathematics.

The natural effect of processes going on in the Universe is to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, unless there is an input of energy from outside

The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.

Unsettle the mind; destroy the balance. Destroy the balance; obliterate the man.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

enough for the Republic—but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here—and in thousands of systems just like this one—brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.

He stared at those decent, well-meaning faces with their decent, well-meaning expressions, lost now in the chaos which their pitifully decent, well-meaning society struggled to keep at bay.

In Gylfaginning Snorri uses and expands on these sources, adding, among other things, that the einherjar are "all those men who have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world." He also sends the einherjar out against the forces of chaos at the last battle but gives no details of their fights and fates.

When in the world will this lunacy end?