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Quotes About Chaos

Political chaos is scary for the orthodox, creative for the unorthodox; what politics sees as instability appears as dynamism in terms of commercial and cultural development.
~ Wendy Doniger
In the streets you saw people frozen in their cars, suffocated to death.
~ Wendy Pearlman
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
~ Werner Herzog
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
~ Werner Herzog
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
~ Werner Herzog
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
~ Wesley Morris
Out of the chaos and darkness of Nun rose Ammon-Ra, He-Who-Creates-Himself. I watched Ammon-Ra stroke his generative member, masturbating and spurting out his seminal seed in mighty waves that left the silver smear that we know as the Milky Way across the dark void. From this seed were generated Geb and Nut, the earth and the heaven.
~ Wilbur Smith
Mit einem Schrei, der aus dem Thierreich zu stammen schien, stürzten sich Zuckriegel und Steinbüchse auf den Kelten und griffen zu. Einen Schrei stieß aber auch das Mädchen vom Rudolfsthurm aus: »Hilfe! Räuber! Diebe! Heilige Jungfrau! Maria und Joseph! Maxerl! Herr Inspector! Franzel! Hilfe um Gott und Jesu, s' gehet mit's G'ripp durch!«
~ Wilhelm Raabe
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~ Will Durant
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
~ Will Durant
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
~ Will Durant
In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~ Daniel Morgan
It was mad and it was beautiful.
~ Daniel Price
Russians are a paternalistic people. They believe in the Orthodox Church, the State, the Tsar. They associate democracy with chaos. Our president and the siloviki understand this. They use words like 'managed democracy' and 'State capitalism,' but they're just euphemisms for something more sinister: fascism.
~ Daniel Silva
I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
~ Danielle Steel
creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.
~ Danny Gregory
No matter what turmoil or chaos is in your life right now, the God of peace will give you a calm to get through it with poise and grace—and to give you the ultimate victory that results in peace. And not just peace at the end of the storm, but peace along the journey. The Lord is peace. And He offers that peace to you.
~ Darlene Zschech
Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)
~ Darren Shan
As well try to organize a herd of crocodiles to pick strawberries.
~ Dave Duncan
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
~ Dave Eggers
You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.
~ Dave Eggers
I mean, it's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of a day, it's more like a two-and-to-make... fish... or something... You know? Not even close to making sense.
~ Dave McKean