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Quotes About Chaos

City burning, in other words, was becoming something of a science.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Being a football fan entitles us to a temporary, recurring retreat, a short holiday from real existence. Our lives can be in chaos and nothing seem fixed. Nothing except how we feel on a Saturday at 3pm, when we are elevated into blissful and infuriating distraction. What a privilege that is.
~ Unknown
All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
In a disaster . . . individual personality does not matter. Almost everything you do is going to make it worse. —MICHAEL CRICHTON
~ Daniel H. Wilson
between the two. Harmony emerges from integration. Chaos and rigidity arise when integration is blocked.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
The absence of limits and boundaries is actually quite stressful, and stressed kids are more reactive. So when we say no and set limits for our children, we help them discover predictability and safety in an otherwise chaotic world. And we build brain connections that allow kids to handle difficulties well in the future.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
one extreme is chaos, where there's a total lack of control. The other extreme is rigidity, where there's too much control, leading to a lack of flexibility and adaptability. We all move
~ Daniel J. Siegel
So one extreme is chaos, where there's a total lack of control. The other extreme is rigidity, where there's too much control, leading to a lack of flexibility and adaptability. We all move back and forth between these two banks as we go through our days—especially as we're trying to survive parenting
~ Daniel J. Siegel
canoes, and they float down their own river of well-being. Many of the challenges we face as parents result from the times when our kids aren't in the flow, when they're either too chaotic or too rigid.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
So one extreme is chaos, where there's a total lack of control. The other extreme is rigidity, where there's too much control, leading to a lack of flexibility and adaptability.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
We all move back and forth between these two banks as we go through our days—especially as we're trying to survive parenting. When we're closest to the banks of chaos or rigidity, we're farthest from mental and emotional health. The longer we can avoid either bank, the more time we spend enjoying the river of well-being.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
~ Daniel Kahneman
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
~ Vic Morrow
There's some of these villains that are just crazy and they do it just to do it. Then you got The Joker, who says he's an agent of chaos and he comes back in different forms every time, comes back to fight Batman he's a different character, different guy.
~ Brook Lopez
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
~ John Lydon
Russia has conducted a coordinated cyberattack on state election systems and hacked critical infrastructure. They have used social media to sow chaos and discord in our society. They have beaten and harassed U.S. diplomats and violated anti-proliferation treaties.
~ Richard Burr
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
~ Zakk Wylde
Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The world is too violent right now.
~ Jackie Chan
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
~ Edward James Olmos
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
~ Craig Ferguson
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Our country is pathologically violent.
~ Dee Rees