Quotes About Chaos

People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.

Don't you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don't know. Really, I'm not sure how to explain, but can't you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don't … well, I'm not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can't believe it. I won't. We must rise to the occasion.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman.

Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path. Getting the knack of catching ourselves, of gently and compassionately catching ourselves, is the path of the warrior.

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

Life is a mess - a random muddle. Which is exactly why one is drawn to improving on it.

And when you and I talk about history we don't mean what actually happened, do we? The cosmic chaos of everywhere, all time? We mean the tidying up of this into books, the concentration of the benign historical eye upon years and places and persons. History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

Is that my ears ringing, or am I screaming? I am burning and I am blind and I can't find the stairs and I do not know how to get out of Madham.

the writing of history is often another way of defining chaos. There is in fact a case for saying that human history, as it is generally described and understood, is the sum total of accident and unintended consequence.

The writing of history is often another way of defining chaos.

The focus on contribution counteracts one of the basic problems of the executive: the confusion and chaos of events and their failure to indicate by themselves which is meaningful and which is merely "noise." The focus on contribution imposes an organizing principle. It imposes relevance on events.

Hay demasiados dedos en los botones

The occupiers spend much of their time drunk or stoned. They squabble incessantly, contradicting themselves from one day to the next. They live parasitically, depending on the farm for their survival even as they destroy it. Their behavior plays to every colonial prejudice about the chaos and hopelessness of Africa.