Quotes About Stability

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

I was also troubled by the apparent over-confidence of a generation that has only known stability, growth and prosperity. I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it. Most of all, I hope that they will know that honest and effective government, public order and personal security, economic and social progress did not come about as the natural course of events.

But for a very small number of people, what we stood for could easily have done a great deal of good for Malaysia and established it for many centuries to come as a stable and viable multiracial nation. ... Kinship and feelings for one another cannot be legislated out by a political decision.

More possibilities and opportunities for women would bring greater expectations and responsibilities—along with a lack of both illusions and stability.

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.

Tessa was sincere but shallow; she was loving but mercurial; she was an exhibitionist without enough confidence to be an actor. While Fiona displayed all the characteristics of elder children: stability, confidence, intellect in abundance, and that cold reserve with which to judge all the shortcomings of the world.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Janey had accepted the responsibilities of adulthood, and people like that didn't run off on a moment's notice.

to my eye you could never alter.

Societies only seem stable when they are ruled over by an autocratic government.

One of the most important things about roots is that they hold the soil in place.

She can't explain why she is choked up. She isn't entirely sure, other than the sweetness of Patrick's familiarity, an aching nostalgia for her youth, a reminder of all that is good, and solid, and stable. All that she once had. All that she has lost. Patrick has grown into a big man. Solid. Imposing. His embrace is all-enveloping, tight, stable. Like being held by a bear. Safe, she thinks. I am safe. And almost immediately after: I have come home.

Cities grow the middle class. But to keep it as it grows, to keep it as a stabilizing force in the form of a self-diversified population, means considering the city's people valuable and worth retaining, right where they are, before they become middle class.

I couldn't imagine the table not being there. The refrigerator and the stove got changed out, but the table remained. It was the heart of the kitchen, and the kitchen was the heart of the house.

Ranger keeps small Third World countries secure.

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

When you're levered 9 to 1, it'd be unreal for a bank to go down.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.