Quotes About Chaos

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

El mundo no es más que un manicomio sin verja

Cuál es la lógica entre las cosas? Realmente ninguna. Somos nosotros los que buscamos una entre un segmento y otro de vida. Pero ese intento de dar forma a lo que no la tiene, de dar forma al caos, sólo saben llevarlo a buen puerto los buenos escritores.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain.

When an explosion takes place lots of bits and pieces fly all over the scenery. The greater the wallop the larger the lumps and the farther they travel. These are fundamental facts known to every schoolchild old enough to have some sneaky suspicions about the birds and the bees. They were not known or perhaps they were not fully realized by Johannes Pretorius van der Camp Blieder despite the fact that he was fated to create the biggest bang in human history.

herding cats and shoveling smoke.

Christians do not wish to escape repentance, or chaos, if it is God's will to bring it upon us. We must take this judgement as Christians." Christians

It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.

much time. * * * Racing around the outside of the square in his Afghan robes, face smeared with dirt and blood, he looked little different from many of the other men

I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order

The tremendous success of general management over the last century has provided unprecedented material abundance, but those management principles are ill suited to handle the chaos and uncertainty that startups must face.

if management is the problem, chaos is the answer.

The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

Problems accumulate over a long time while few see what's happening, except the assholes who profit from the disorder. And they add fuel to the fire so gradually no one notices the decline until suddenly everything goes to shit. Then, people die. In job lots.

The whole wire system of the brain could be disconnected in a spark of a second by a sometimes unsignificant detail. An unexpected incident or an innocuous phone call may provoke an ethereal distress that might plunge one's life into chaos and like a sudden twist of fate overturn everything, ransacking the assembled experiences of our history. ("Alors, tout a basculé")

The Clan is on fire!