Quotes About Chaos

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

In the main street of Winesburg crowds filled the stores and sidewalks. Night came on, horses whinnied, the clerks in stores ran madly about, children became lost and cried lustily, an American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution".

Going fast is never the problem... It begins the moment one realises that things are out of control...

Arriving at the edge of chaos is a logical endpoint for drift. At the edge of chaos, systems have tuned themselves to the point of maximum capability.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

Wall St. Lays an Egg.

Z morderstwem jest jak z ?yciem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.

So much can be explained by the habitual clumsiness of totalitarian panic.

around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

Ici nous sommes sur terre, Wilnor, et sur terre c'est le tourbillon et la fumée, ce ne sont pas les grandes allées droites du ciel.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

Here's a pretty kettle of fish!

Here's a pretty state of things!Here's a pretty how-de-do!

Jackson Pollock.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.