Quotes About Stability

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Job creation as part of the corporate mission, particularly the creation of fll time, decently paid, stable jobs, appears to have taken a back seat in many major corporations, regardless of company profits

Climate change pits what the planet needs to maintain stability against what our economic model needs to sustain itself. But since that economic model is failing the vast majority of the people on the planet on multiple fronts that might not be such a bad thing. Put another way, if there has ever been a moment to advance a plan to heal the planet that also heals our broken economies and our shattered communities, this is it.

we will not win the battle for a stable climate by trying to beat the bean counters at their own game—arguing, for instance, that it is more cost-effective to invest in emission reduction now than disaster response later. We will win by asserting that such calculations are morally monstrous, since they imply that there is an acceptable price for allowing entire countries to disappear, for leaving untold millions to die on parched land

The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.

Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.

a strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions

Routine is liberating, it makes you feel in control.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

I put my faith into stones, he smiled at me across the table. They do not rot, and they do not lose their value. They are light to carry and easy to keep close. He patted his pocket. They will never let you down.

You see, animals don't follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability.

I haven't changed, I'm still the same lad who lives at home with my mam, brother and sister.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

I can't think of a band that has made 19 albums, and hasn't either moved into what I call the manor class, or disappeared, or else is just doing things that are a very mellow version of what they've always done.

Around '93, I had to get a couple of jobs. I had a job for a while working at a gym, just so I could work out for free, because I knew if I didn't exercise, I'd go crazy. It's the key to my mental health, actually.

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.

It's like this: I've had the same mentality since I was five years old.

If you aren't mentally healthy you aren't healthy.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.

I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.

Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.