Quotes About Chaos

told him a lot, right then and there. What? Well, for instance, that chaos doesn't run the whole show. That this is not a sick and hasty ride, helpless, through a dream into oblivion. No, sir! It can be arrested by a thing or two. By art, for instance. The speed is checked, the time is redivided. Measure! That great thought. Mystery! The voices of angels!

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

We humans don't like uncertainty, so we are attracted to those who offer clarity and simple answers, even if the answers are wrong or incomplete. Master Persuaders can thrive in chaotic environments by offering the clarity people crave. And if an environment is not chaotic already, a skilled persuader who understands both social media and the news business can easily stir the pot to create an advantage through chaos. Candidate Trump was a champion of this method.

y lo interesante es que todas y cada una de ellas son un auténtico desastre.

Even the government couldn't have concocted such an obscene clusterfuck. So this one was on God or the universe, whichever way you wanted to assign the blame.

It's really chaos and darkness out there, and when we prétend it's not, it's just The Play. We're all onstage. Saying our lines. Playing at whoever we're trying to be at the moment. A lawyer. A spouse. Even though we know in the back of our heads that life is a lot more random and messed-up than we can ud to say to ourselves.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

El encargarse de locos acaba por dañar al mismo diablo.

It's all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

So this is what love is. It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

This place. It was the noise that impressed me first of all. A terrible racket, yells and whistles, hoots of laughter, arguments, sobs. But there are moments of stillness, too, as if a great fear, or a great sadness, has fallen suddenly, striking us all speechless. The air stands motionless in the corridors, like stagnant water.

In the midst of chaos and injustice and violence, Jesus displays gentle mercy for His enemy. The contrast is not only emotionally moving, but theologically significant and instructive.

No ocean rages like a tortured soul.

If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man's nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.

Remove a dictator and watch chaos grow.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

In no age or country, perhaps, since the dawn of civilization was humbuggery exhibited in more gigantic and grotesque forms. . . . Reason was everywhere reeling in the storm, and madness ruled the masses."22