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Quotes About Chaos

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
~ Douglas Coupland
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
~ Stephen Spender
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
~ Jean Cocteau
If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
~ Ezra Pound
The mob has many heads but no brains.
~ Thomas Fuller
To fish in troubled waters.
~ Matthew Henry
Anarchy is against the law.
~ Graffiti
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
~ James Thurber
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
~ Peter De Vries
'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.
~ Edwin Catmull
This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.
~ Kevin Brady
There is a lot of negativity, turmoil throughout the world.
~ Tulsi Kumar
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
~ Frank Stella
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.
~ Marian McPartland
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
~ Lawrence Wright
I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil.
~ Peter Molyneux
Brexit is turning out to be a really really bad meal. We ordered steak and chips and we've now got some raw chicken that smells bad.
~ Gavin Esler
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
~ David R. Brower
The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.
~ Ellen Ullman
I think the root of minor problems is separation from a belief system of interconnectedness and compassion and oneness, so when we multiply that over and over again, it turns into lies and chaos and terrorism.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
~ Adam Davidson