Quotes About Chaos

Then the music. It's jazz and yet not jazz. There's something euphoric, disconnected about it. Like four instruments that have run amok. But it fools you. Because there is also a strange precision to it. Like a clown act in a circus ring. What takes the greatest precision is that it's supposed to sound like total chaos.

My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaohís palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.

Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Now when Saulís watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,

Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.

The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

The couriers left, spurred on by the kingís command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

He deprives the earthís leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.