Quotes About Stability

The FHA was particularly concerned with preventing school desegregation. Its manual warned that if children "are compelled to attend school where the majority or a considerable number of the pupils represent a far lower level of society or an incompatible racial element, the neighborhood under consideration will prove far less stable and desirable than if this condition did not exist," and mortgage lending in such neighborhoods would be risky.

But since Clark's triumphs were those of a war leader, that is, the products of fear, pain, and opportunity, they were not stable. Clark's mistake was to think them the larger triumphs of alliance.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth.

Perché cambiava sempre tutto, quando l'unica cosa che si desiderava, l'unica cosa che si era mai chiesta umilmente a Dio o a chi per lui, era che certe cose potessero restare immutate?

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

Centrum permanebit.

Centrum Permanebit" The Center Will Hold

I wasn't always the most imaginative person, but I thought back to what I'd said about living another life. What would it be like to have a home like this? To stay in one place? To spend days by the pool, soaking in the sun, and not worrying about the fate of humanity?

Bible says, "Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.

Solid, stable churches are not built in a day. When God wants to make a mushroom he takes six hours. When God wants to build an oak tree he takes sixty years. Do you want your church to be a mushroom or an oak tree?

A stable organizational environment with transparent values is conducive to employees' feeling confident that they can take the risks that experimentation requires.

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

maintaining an organizational system that can maintain the complementarity between the forces for innovation and those for stability.

The major conclusion was that this group of firms was pursuing strategies with a long-term perspective on where they wanted to go, but also with the recognition that whatever they were doing today wasn't going to drive their future growth. Interestingly, they had identified and implemented ways of combining tremendous internal stability while motivating tremendous external agility, particularly in terms of business models.

the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.

conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere

Some things—and some people—are not supposed to change.

Oh, my God!" "Compose yourself.

while our position has been eroding, the internal positions of Eurasia's two principal hinge states, Russia and China, have been eroding further. They have ethnic, political, and economic challenges of a fundamental, structural kind compared to which ours pale in significance. Their very future stability and existence as unitary states can be questioned, whereas ours cannot.

In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed.

But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy.