Quotes About Stability

I have a lavish, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit

Partire e fermarsi sono le due cose più difficili

Classical economists assume that people have rational and stable preferences and that their well-being is greatest when they have the maximum opportunities to satisfy them. So more choice is always better, and more income increases choices, so the way to make life better is to increase people's incomes. This theory is all well and good, but is it in fact true?

We have seen a lack of stability over 30 years and four governors, said Nicholas Alahverdian. We have seen a lack of care. And now — in an election year — we have seen a complete and utter lack of bureaucratic mastery to obliterate the red tape and provide tangible, enduring solutions to children and adolescents in state care.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

the new order promised stability, where for years there had been only chaos.

Most of the kids who thrived came from stable, nurturing families attentive to education, while, as research would suggest, those who struggled came from homes with chaos, substance abuse and an indifference to schooling. The Jernstedts farmed grass seed and planted

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.

I do not like inconsistent! Why must it be so?

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

Commitment holds a solid, grounding energy that provides stability and structure to our lives.

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

You know how they say there's only one thing in the universe that's constant?' Jonas started. 'Change. Change is the only constant in the universe. And left alone, all things return to chaos.

Frica de reac?ia în întârziere a destinului devine mai nefast? decât chiar confirmarea presim?irilor. Nenorocirea stabilizeaz?, cel pu?in, pentru o vreme, balan?a. Promite un armisti?iu.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains." Henry Wheeler Shaw

Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

From what I've read," I said to him, "the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.

Curt Loehr, the Oankali said, needed people to look after. People stabilized him, gave him purpose. Without them, he might have been a criminal—or dead.

The bed was what it had always been: a solid platform that gave slightly to the touch and that seemed to grow from the floor.