Quotes About Chaos

The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach.

The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues.

The cement bunnies remained serene and unaffected by the chaos.

Hey," Abby said as they barreled past her, holding a large wooden spoon slick with some kind of sauce. "Do you want some...

Ordnung! Ja! Ordentlich ist heute die Welt. Aber sagen Sie mir: Ist sie noch schön?

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

So worried by the chaos were the British that between Christmas 1928 and New Year 1929 they organised an airlift first of their women and children then of all personnel, the first large-scale air evacuation in history

Children with borderline mothers adjust to the chaos of their lives by learning to expect the unexpected. They associate love with fear and kindness with danger.

a big boy did it and ran away

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

What a country, America. A lunatic asylum, without enough attendants or tranquilizers.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

The final story of randomness—utter chaos—has not yet been told to us by the mathematicians. It seems remarkable that something so fundamental for probability theory has not been defined and even more remarkable that we can go so far in mathematics lacking a definition. By simply assuming randomness exists, mathematicians assign elementary probabilities to events, and that is their starting point. But they have not captured chaos and looked it in the eye.

Emotional fuckwittage

N)ot everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.

The Bolsheviks are coming, like Atilla, like clouds of locusts. They are destroying everything in their path. (Vera Muromtseva)

You look on chaos and proclaim it as yourself.

Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An example is the chaotic disposition of sand grains at the beach, or of flecks of light on a television screen when the station closes down. In the chaotic distribution, no location or direction is preferred. Only when there is structure appearing in a chaotic distribution does orientation become possible, as the overall symmetry is broken.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

My spirit is no longer what it was. Vaguely I seek, everywhere. I must see things with all their consequences, and right to their source. Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible.

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

I had a vision of mankind to be: I saw no grated windows, heard no roar From iron mouths of war on land or sea; Ambition broke the sway of peace no more. Out of the chaos of ill-will had come Cosmos, the Age of Good, Millennium!