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Quotes About Chaos

lately is has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...
~ Lemony Snicket
The rest of the place was ransacked, a word for something that is fun to do to someone else's room, but no fun to have done to yours.
~ Lemony Snicket
It's bitten her!' he cried. 'It's Bitten her! It's bitten her! Calm down! Get moving! Call an ambulance! Call the police! Call a scientist! Call my wife! This is terrible! This is awful! This is ghastly! This is phantasmagorical! This is-
~ Lemony Snicket
If everyone fought with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.
~ Lemony Snicket
I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.
~ Lemony Snicket
There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize. But
~ Lemony Snicket
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
~ Lemony Snicket
He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.
~ Lenin
Godzilla— A skyscraper-sized, radioactively mutated lizard. Grocery
~ Lenore Look
Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).
~ Leo Tolstoy
carving our way south through the chaos of midtown Manhattan dinner traffic. Unhealthy food and a healthy dose of road rage, I thought with an impressed nod. My new partner was getting this New York cop thing down pretty fast. The calm from my shower and my visit with the kids lasted less than a New York minute as I scanned the pages of her notes. The latest victim was the youngest yet: a seventeen-year-old high school student named Mary Beth Haas.
~ James Patterson
I promise to love you, to listen to you deeply, to support your passions, to stand with you even when there is chaos around us, to be a safe place for you, forever.
~ James Patterson
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
The brambles and the thorns grew thick and thicker in a ticking thicket of bickering crickets. Farther along and stronger, bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, green and vivid on their lily pads. From the sky came the crying of flies, and the pilgrims leaped over a bleating sheep creeping knee-deep in a sleepy stream, in which swift and slippery snakes slid and slithered silkily, whispering sinful secrets.
~ James Thurber
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
~ Jane Austen
The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.
~ Jane Austen
As of the present chaos I could only hope that, by keeping faith, by still trying to give of one's best, a brighter, calmer day might one day.
~ Jane Hawking
I've experienced having you in the house. It's like living with a loud motor running all the time. Up, down, into this room and that room, eating supper, jumping from the table, cursing all the time, yelling over the telephone about things, laughing, making deals all the time. You take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise." She
~ Jane Smiley
How was your day? Morelli asked me. Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.
~ Janet Evanovich
Were really screwed up, aren't we? In a very large way.
~ Janet Evanovich
What did you do?" "Blew up a fuel depot, stole twelve rockets and made off with them in a stolen van, got kidnapped by a maniac, and had dinner with a guy who farted fire." "That would be funny, but I'm worried it's all true." "It's been a long couple days." "Did he really fart fire?" Morelli asked.
~ Janet Evanovich
I sent Hal and Rafael to keep an eye on you, and I went to check on a commercial account in Whitehorse. Rafael called to tell me Lula went in with a rocket launcher, so I skipped Whitehorse. I pulled into the lot seconds before you destroyed Billings Foods.
~ Janet Evanovich