Quotes About Stability

I just want to have a normal life.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.

TV jobs that I've had in the past, one of the side effects that is so wonderful is that it gives you a sense of normalcy because you're going to the same place every day, and you sleep in your own bed at night.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

I do find it quite difficult to complete a job and return to normality - it does take a bit of time to find my healthy place.

I manage to live pretty normally.

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.

Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!

I am not a madman or a nut.

As quickly as you can go 4-1, you can go 1-4. And the whole objective is not to get too high and not to get too low. It's one thing to tell somebody that and explain it, but it's another thing to really buy in, to have felt that and understand what it means to stay even-keel. That's what you have to be in this league.

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is boring; a safe and stable child is a curious child - they want to explore new things. A child who feel unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.

Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy. — J. Hamilton.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

Some sort of rigid hierarchy always emerged as the conservative force in a community, maintaining its identity despite the constant variations and changes that beset it.

Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts—those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.

I don't want to destroy anybody. And I don't want war, either. I want the world to hold together. Is that so bad?

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.

working out is such an important way of maintaining an even keel with regard to sobriety