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Quotes About Chaos

I'm paralyzed for an instant as it all lands, everything that's escaped me, like a bomb detonating in my mind. How Caleb's profile is a perfect fit for the kind of man who might flip violently, becoming a killer, a monster. A childhood fractured by abandonment and chaos, his father a tyrant and an alcoholic. The way he'd lost Jenny, the person he loved best in the world, completely powerless to save her. Then the case going unsolved, her killer never found.
~ Paula McLain
War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.
~ Paullina Simons
No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.
~ Paullina Simons
She wasn't afraid of random war. It was like being struck by lightning, even if the lightning did strike a thousand times a day. No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.
~ Paullina Simons
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
~ Pedro Almodovar
What is life? 'Tis but a madness.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Es uno el que está atento solo a las cosas que le competen y entonces recorta del infinito caos cotidiano justo lo que lo interpela?
~ Unknown
Once you learn the maze or see the labyrinth whole, then, elaborate chaos is transformed into pattern.
~ Unknown
Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.
~ Unknown
Hell is a city much like London—A populous and smoky city.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder....
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hell is a city much like London.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.
~ Pete Hautman
Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.
~ Peter Burke
I use chaos as leverage. I have made chaos normal. Chaos engenders chaos. The chaos I reek now opens the door to the vast chaos to come. I revel in chaos.
~ Peter D. Kramer
Life is a zoo in a jungle
~ Peter De Vries
Rather, it was written to tell the Israelites that their God, and not the gods of the other nations, was the chaos tamer, and therefore, this God and this God alone was worthy of worship. And they made this point in ancient terms, using ancient ways of thinking.
~ Unknown
These two laws in particular were central to Jewish identity in Paul's day. They had become social badges of honor to distinguish Jews from Gentiles, something concrete to hang on to amid the persistent religious chaos introduced by centuries of Greek and Roman ways. That's why I wear my Yankees jersey in Phillies country. I do it, at great risk to myself, to let the world—the world, mind you—know that I am different. I belong to another tribe. I am special.
~ Unknown
Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.
~ Unknown
You cannot fight entropy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.
~ Peter Greenaway