Quotes About Chaos

It's all about finding the calm in the chaos

And–since this willful amnesia had kept Robin's death from being translated into that sweet old family vernacular which smoothed even the bitterest mysteries into comfortable, comprehensible form–the memory of that day's events had a chaotic, fragmented quality, bright mirror-shards of nightmare which flared at the smell of wisteria, the creaking of a clothes-line, a certain stormy cast of spring light.

Delirium: unmoored and drifting.

The first snowfall of the season and everyone seems to forget, en masse, how to drive. I

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain

Boy did he hate banks. He told me once that the Founding Fathers worried more about banks than they worried about the British. They knew that banks had been causing chaos, bringing empires to their knees, for centuries, all in the name of free enterprise. Photographer

Like nothing else, words organized my world, put order to chaos, divided things neatly into black and white. Words even helped me organize my parents. My mother was the printed word—tangible, present, real—while my father was the spoken word—invisible, ephemeral, instantly part of memory. There was something comforting about this rigid symmetry.

power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.

Poor guy's head is spinning!

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

Rumors are like pigeons. They fly everywhere and make a mess wherever they go.

Trouver une forme qui exprime le gâchis, telle est maintenant la tâche de l'artiste».

Vos livre sont classés selon quel principe? demandai-je. -Le principe du désordre absolu, dit-il.

La sensación de que todo está demasiado limpio y ordenado, de que falta un poco de caos para que parezca verdadero.

Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture; none of it under the right people.

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

Ubrzo je nanovo utvrdio da je njegova egzistencija sa?injena od fragmenata koji se me?usobno ne uklapaju, i svaki pokušaj da im se utvrdi neki redosljed bio bi jednak samotnoj igri na sre?u.

Dealing dreams and destruction to a pattern plagued world.