Quotes About Stability

Miraculously, though, the same coral heads that split the ship's sides held the wounded vessel fast, upright as if she were in the jaws of a vise.

The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

What I am claiming is that mere Christianity, a Christianity which lacks this doctrinal elaboration, is an insufficient basis either for building a church or for guaranteeing the long-term stability of the tradition of the church, i.e. the transmission from generation to generation and from place to place of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its "relative eternity." Only then does the legislator's self-limitation and the independence of the law-bound judge find an anchor. The experiences of the French Revolution showed how an unleashed pouvoir législatif could generate a legislative orgy.

peace is maintained by the equilibrium of forces, and will continue just as long as this equilibrium exists, and no longer.

Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

She had never met anyone who was more of a sure thing, sure to stay put in her life now that he'd walked through its door. Now she could unhook her hopes from lost love. Now she didn't have to go looking for a future.

about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

One King means peace.

The wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes the wall has more mood than a woman.

Steel weighs more than wind.