Quotes About Chaos

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

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What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread

In time of war the laws are silent.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

She knew only that the evening before had been like some kind of nightmare in which everything that could have gone wrong had done so.

it seemed entirely possible to him that religion and literature and art and music were all merely side effects of a brain structure that comes into the world ready to make language out of noise, sense out of chaos. Our capacity for imposing meaning, he thought, is programmed to unfold the way a butterfly's wings unfold when it escapes the chrysalis, ready to fly. We are biologically driven to create meaning. And if that's so, he asked himself, is the miracle diminished? It

I would not have voted for the man," Doc admitted, "but this—" He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky and racing beyond the city limits before the police could do anything about the ruckus. "This is indecent.

somehow, I must have given you my dog, Poppy, instead of Shaz." "Thanks a lot," Zoey said. "This damn dog has been barfing for ten minutes. She barfed all over the car, herself, me, it's everywhere. It's disgusting.

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

People are messy, unpredictable things.

Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By

Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindoos give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.