Quotes About Stability

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

We all need the comforting illusion of stability and security in this shaky rooftop of a thing we call life. Tevye is right; we are all fiddlers, trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking our necks.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn't.

It was the most traditional wedding ring in the world. It reeked of stability and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. It proclaimed itself to the world as the rock upon which vows were never broken. It was a testament of his love. Proof of his commitment.

No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote,

Two other firefighters do a 360 around the vehicle, shining flashlights everywhere. I watch the beams sweep across the dark ravine. One of them speaks on a walkie-talkie to someone above us. I can make out his words that the patient appears to be stable.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

Your desk should send to everyone who sees it the message: All is well; I am in control.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Hier bleibt alles beim Alten. Das war schon immer so.

When St Antony of Egypt was asked, "What rules shall I keep so as to please God?", he replied: "Wherever you go, have God always before your eyes; in whatever you do or say, have an example from the Holy Scriptures; and whatever the place in which you dwell, do not be quick to move elsewhere. Keep these three things, and you will live.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.