Quotes About Chaos

madman and a monster.

We've got a girls' chorus of fourteen and they're running all over the place, with a chaperone who's driving us nuts and letting them do whatever they want. We've got a guy with a baby that hasn't stopped screaming since we took off, and one of our toilets just broke. You people have the good life up here.

Cuando el Estado no logra prácticamente ninguna centralización política, la sociedad, tarde o temprano, llega al caos

Infighting and instability are thus inherent features of extractive institutions, and they not only create further inefficiencies but also often reverse any political centralization, sometimes even leading to the total breakdown of law and order and descent into chaos, as the Maya city-states experienced following their relative success during their Classical Era. Though

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.

This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale. It's insane.

Indecision is the source of chaos

My thoughts were a jumble. I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes.

I had to go along with them. Indecision is the source of chaos, as Paris Skyle used to say.

What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked, and what happens next makes IwoJima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Stephen King novel.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Four had never met this man, and did not think himself capable of prophecy, but in a instant he knew Nine was an agent of chaos and would make the difficult work ahead far more so.

Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife.

They started a great fire in the middle of the market, and from this fire they took burning logs and torches, and these they threw onto the roofs of most of the homes within a one-mile radius. The few men who resisted were shot. This was effectively the end of any kind of life in Marial Bai for some time. Again, the rebels for whom this was retribution were nowhere to be found.

We gravitate toward comfort, Josie thought, but it must be rationed. Give us one-third comfort and two-thirds chaos—that is balance.

That must drive you insa— Oh please. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

And all this was before the bus hit the sheep.

What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.

If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed!

Boy, that was an amorphous blob of undoability!

Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. —Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer