Quotes About Chaos

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

The world is sick.

So the universe is the sacred silence and sleep, and the kids are the disorder. So how do you control the disorder in that universe? You can't. To me, that's 'Toxicity.'

During war, the laws are silent.

He is on a mission. He will not tolerate disorder. He eliminates chaos from his world in order to banish it from his mind. He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

Needless to say, in a country where nothing makes sense only crazy acts do.

So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed.

There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn't news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues—death in all its forms. It's folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time.

If you have a responsive love partner, you have a secure base in the chaos. If you are emotionally alone, you are in free fall. Having someone you can rely on for connection and support makes healing from trauma easier.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. 

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.

Recordar siempre el peligro cuando estás a salvo y el caos en tiempos de orden, permanece atento al peligro y al caos mientras no tengan todavía forma y evítalos antes de que se presenten; ésta es la mejor estrategia de todas.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

To an outsider the dinosaur is impossible to ignore, but for those within the home, the hopelessness of evicting the beast forces them to pretend it isn't there. That's the only way they can coexist. Lies, excuses, and secrets are as common as air in these homes, creating tremendous emotional chaos for children.

Personally I can think of nothing more terrifying than to live in a land where law and order have no meaning and violence is the rule of the day.

A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.

Apocalypse is now a long-running serial: not "Apocalypse Now" but "Apocalypse From Now On.

Quando faço uma fotografia, escreve Siskind, quero que seja um objeto onovo, completo e autosuficiente, cuja condição básica é a ordem. Para Cartier-Bresson, tirar fotografias é encontrar a estrutura do mundo, deleitar-se com o prazer puro da forma, revelar que em todo este caos, há ordem.

Esto es lo que hace la guerra. Y aquello es lo que hace, también. La guerra rasga, desgarra. La guerra rompe, destripa. La guerra abrasa. La guerra desmembra. La guerra arruina.

Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.

She's never know because now the store was infested with cheerleaders.