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Quotes About Chaos

Life is complex, and entropy is real.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society," Zeyk would say, "which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that's when you get the worst kinds of civil wars. As in the conflict in Colombia that they called La Violencia, for instance. A civil war that became a complete breakdown of the state, a chaos that no one could understand, much less control.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Flood, ice age, population boom, social chaos, revolution; perhaps things had gotten so bad that humanity had shifted into some kind of universal catastrophe rescue operation, or, in other words, the first phase of the postcapitalist era.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning.
~ Kingsley Amis
The resulting, stable singularities now carry the name BKL in honor of Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz. A BKL singularity is chaotic. Highly chaotic. And lethal. Highly lethal.
~ Kip S. Thorne
Gud hadde stukket sin finger ned i mit nervenet og lempelig, ganske løselig bragt litt uorden i trådene.
~ Knut Hamsun
Ah, that little anthill! Everyone busy with his own affairs, crossing each other's path, elbowing each other aside, sometimes even trampling on each other. That's the way it is, sometimes they even trample on each other...
~ Knut Hamsun
Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie
~ Kresley Cole
What do you get when you mix two Baggers, a bloodthirsty toga-wearing card, and a half-mad Empress? Road trip A.F.–style.
~ Kresley Cole
Well, if it isn't Nucking Futs Nïx," he muttered to himself as she parked the wheezing car. Never had Cade seen such an abused Bentley. There were dings in the body, mud all over the tires, smoke tendrils rising from the hood, and at least two bullet holes. A Garfield doll was stuck to the rear window.
~ Kresley Cole
It's interesting how a random event can change our lives in ways that would be impossible to imagine, isn't it?
~ Kyle Mills
The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.
~ Kyle Mills
Strife and chaos always traveled hand in hand with opportunity, though. It was just a question of whether one was strong and clever enough to take advantage.
~ Kyle Mills
There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
~ E. Stanley Jones
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
~ Terry Pratchett
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
~ Paul Winchell
When the cobwebs and dust pile up, all the musty thoughts and forgotten emotions get caught in their webs and attract spirits and all sorts of chaotic energy.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
~ yates brock
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
~ young edward
Duygular kesin bir düzene girmekten kaç?n?rlar. Onun yerine küçük parçalar halinde feza boÅŸluÄŸunda serbest dolan?rlar. Ay?r?c? özellikleri de istikrars?zl?kt?r.
~ Yukio MiÅŸima