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Quotes About Chaos

Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pay For Soup/Build A Fort/Set That On Fire
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards and Looper knelt down and tried to reach them, but they were pulled in, too. In the midst of all this, the mayor jumped onto the one boat that was still upright, but as soon as he hit it, it turned over and he plunged into the river.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Pretutindeni aceleaÅŸi strig?te de spaim? ÅŸi aceeaÅŸi harababur?, aceeaÅŸi goan? neagr? ÅŸi greoaie pe str?zile unde lumina îÅ£i ia ochii, pfiu! Str?zile astea pustii, aerul care tremur? ÅŸi soarele ?sta... Exist? ceva mai sinistru ca soarele?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
~ M. Scott Peck
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.
~ Steven Weinberg
The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.
~ Bob Dylan
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle
~ Bob Dylan
Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
~ Ben Chestnut
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
~ Don Roff
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
~ Alexander Pope
I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.
~ Amanda Schull
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
~ Gore Vidal
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
~ Jean Kerr
If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.
~ Deontay Wilder
I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.
~ Anja Niedringhaus
That's the thing about New York, the streets of New York are crazy!
~ Dave Portnoy
I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.
~ Rory Cochrane
The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.
~ Karyn Kusama
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
~ Elif Safak
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
~ Nick Harkaway
America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.
~ Tucker Carlson
The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
~ America Ferrera