Quotes About Chaos

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and the wind at eighty miles per hour. That would do it every time.

Things Just Happen, What The Hell

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

In the rain-forests of Brutha's subconscious the butterfly of doubt emerged and flapped an experimental wing, all unaware of what chaos theory has to say about this sort of thing …

Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The kicking and punching stopped only when it became apparent that all the mob was attacking was itself. And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened.

He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat.

Sometimes t feels like I live in a circus and all the animals are loose.

To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we don't know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.

To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we do not know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.

Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.

She needed so badly to sleep, but could not quiet the chaos in her head.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Well, there's one thing that gives me hope." "What's that?" asked Beatrice, shaking out one of the blankets and wrapping it around herself. Catherine smiled. It was a grim smile. "Diana's with them. There is no situation so well-planned that Diana can't introduce chaos into it. Whoever is holding them, wherever they're being held, is going to regret it.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

Under Mr. Corbyn, Labour are a shambles.