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Quotes About Stability

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. (Isa. 26:3–4)
~ Scotty Smith
Now, you might think to increase those numbers, you might add thousands of fish. Think again. Fish live a Darwinian existence. A female walleye can lay 50,000 eggs in a single night, but in a stable population, all but two will perish before adulthood from predation, starvation, and other perils.
~ Sean B Carroll
If we pretend that the emission of gravitational waves were the only thing affecting the Earth's orbit, it would take over 1023 years for it to crash into the sun. So perhaps the same thing is true for atoms: maybe electron orbits aren't really stable, but they're stable enough.
~ Sean Carroll
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
~ James C. Collins
It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
~ Jodi Picoult
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
~ Mara Wilson
The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.
~ Nabil Elaraby
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
~ Barack Obama
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
~ Ben Stein
Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
~ Bill Hayden
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
~ Brian Behlendorf
In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
~ Robert Reich
There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.
~ Ronald Reagan
No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.
~ Rudy Giuliani
I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
~ Tony Gilroy
Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.
~ Torii Hunter
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
~ William Safire
I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
~ Liz Phair
I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.
~ Matthew McConaughey
I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same
~ Michele Jaffe
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
~ Mark Twain
Steady as she goes
~ Marlo Thomas