Quotes About Stability

But Yorke had offered more than a mathematical result. He had sent a message to physicists: Chaos is ubiquitous; it is stable; it is structured. He also gave reason to believe that complicated systems, traditionally modeled by hard continuous differential equations, could be understood in terms of easy discrete maps.

An attractor like Lorenz's illustrated the stability and the hidden structure of a system that otherwise seemed patternless, but how did this peculiar double spiral help researchers exploring unrelated systems? No one knew.

He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.

A Cowboys Prayer May your belly never grumble, May your heart never ache, May your horse never stumble, May your cinch never break.

He allowed himself to think that in certain circumstances he would rob his bank but, as these circumstances never arose, his life rolled out evenly—an adventureless tale.

For the moment it was enough that his advisers and minions respected him–for reestablishing peace, for eliminating the group that had posed the greatest threat to continued stability–but eventually those same advisers would need to fear him. To understand the great power he wielded, as both Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. And to that end, Sidious needed Vader. For if someone as potent as Vader answered to the Emperor, then how powerful must the Emperor be!

For the moment it was enough that his advisers and minions respected him–for reestablishing peace, for eliminating the group that had posed the greatest threat to continued stability–but eventually those same advisers would need to fear him. To understand the great power he wielded, as both Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. And to that end, Sidious needed Vader.

What we require is a balance between protest and stability. This is never easy to obtain but is worth attempting, because we know that if through indifference we lose our liberties we shall not regain them in this century.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

He was the anchor in the water, while you rocked up and down on the waves.

You can't go up and down emotionally along with their roller-coaster whims.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

The European Union is here to stay.

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.