Quotes About Chaos

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

There's no such thing as probability, " she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.

Foi o verão em que — pela bilionésima vez — o caos, a brutalidade, a bagunça se revelaram mais sutis do que a ideologia ou a moralidade. Foi o versão em que o pênis de um presidente esteve na cabeça de todos, e a vida, com toda a sua pureza desavergonhada, mais uma vez confundiu todo o país.

As one veteran of the Dardanelles said, war produces two kinds of muddle: the "Ordinary Military Cock Up" (OMCU) and the "Inextricable Balls Up" (IBU).138 In every respect apart from the final withdrawal, conducted with stealth and speed at the end of the year, Gallipoli was an IBU.

The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren at full volume, heedless of the pedestrians in his way.

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In quei giorni e in quei luoghi, poco dopo il passaggio de fronte, un vento alto spirava sulla faccia della terra: il mondo intorno a noi sembrava ritornato al Caos primigenio, e brulicava di esemplari umani scaleni, difettivi, abnormi; e ciascuno di essi si agitava in moti ciechi o deliberati, in ricerca affannosa della propria sede, della propria sfera, come praticamente si narra delle particelle dei quattro elementi nelle cosmogonie degli antichi.