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Quotes About Chaos

Nunca digas que amas a alguien si nunca has visto su ira, sus malos hábitos, sus creencias absurdas y sus contradicciones. Todos pueden amar una puesta de sol y la alegría, solo algunos son capaces de amar el caos y la decadencia.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I stand here on this spring day in the center of my life. Chaos, din, and beauty. For a moment, I am still.
~ Marisa de los Santos
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
~ Marisha Pessl
Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years — Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
~ Marisha Pessl
And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules.
~ Mark Haddon
If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we'll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.
~ Mark Rutland
My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are already living near the fringes of acceptable conduct.
~ Anthony Bourdain
You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I want to tell you about the dark recesses of the restaurant underbelly — a subculture whose centuries-old militaristic hierarchy and ethos of 'rum, buggery and the lash' make for a mix of unwavering order and nerve-shattering chaos — because I find it all quite comfortable
~ Anthony Bourdain
next thing you know, the Russian tanks are rolling through the suburbs, misusing your womenfolk, and Mr Restaurant Genius is holed up in the bunker thinking about eating his gun.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
~ Anthony Powell
A world ruled by a handful of madmen who weren't even that bright. How had it come to this?
~ Anton Gill
It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.
~ Antonin Artaud
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
If it's a shitshow, you can no longer hold your shit together. Access to shit-holding has been denied.
~ Ariel Meadow Stallings
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~ Armand Mattelart
Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is something very strange about a universe where a few dead butterflies can balance a billion-ton tower.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
a real danger by giving it an absurd name, the designations were often facetious: the Godel Gremlin, the Mandelbrot Maze, the Combinatorial Catastrophe, the Transfinite Trap, the Conway Conundrum, the Turing Torpedo, the Lorenz Labyrinth, the Boolean Bomb, the Shannon Snare, the Cantor Cataclysm…
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks.
~ Shirley Jackson
We know that the first step towards attaining intellectual mastery of our environment is to discover generalizations, rules and laws which bring order into chaos. In doing this we simplify the world of phenomena; but we cannot avoid falsifying it, especially if we are dealing with the process of development and change. What we are concerned with is discerning a qualitative alteration, and as a rule in doing so we neglect, at any rate to begin with, a quantitative factor.
~ Sigmund Freud
it is relatively easy to scramble an egg, but to unscramble it is far harder.
~ Simon Singh
Women – the Parcae and Moirai – weave human destiny; but they also cut the threads. In most folk representations, Death is woman and women mourn the dead because death is their work.fn6 Thus, Mother Earth has a face of darkness: she is chaos, where everything comes from and must return to one day; she is Nothingness.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Have you ever shaken up a compass and see the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle? Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella