Quotes About Stability

The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.

The more urbanized, the more educated, and even the more enlightened the world becomes, counterintuitively, the more politically unstable it becomes, too.*42 This is what techno-optimists and those who inhabit the world of fancy corporate gatherings are prone to miss: They wrongly equate wealth creation—and unevenly distributed wealth creation at that—with political order and stability.

Without succumbing to political nightmares, we might ponder whether the bleak, socially estranged future facing poor kids in America today could have unanticipated political consequences tomorrow. So quite apart from the danger that the opportunity gap poses to American prosperity, it also undermines our democracy and perhaps even our political stability.

Chaos serves no social end.

Patient plodding produces durable results.

Cast your burden on the LORD , and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. – Psalm 55:22

Emotions come and go; attitudes come and grow.

Hold me up, and I shall be safe, and I shall observe Your statutes continually. – Psalm 119:117

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. – Isaiah 26:3

Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.

the world presents itself as tantalizing fragments of a lost whole. Caught in the foreground, he can't see the underlying background. Caught in the "myriads of forms," as the Hindus say, he can't find the Oneness that would bring him calm and stability. Living on the finite side of the prism, he can only experience light in its dazzling but fractured rainbow hues.

And there's always the comfort of knowing that you're dealing with the necessities of a situation and not with the vagaries of some fool's whim.

As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium.

Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?

Regardless of how earnestly bankers trumpeted the virtues of laissez-faire, in times of unrest markets looked to Washington to provide stability.

Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the adoption of good measures, yet when once adopted, they are likely to be stable and permanent. It will be far more difficult to undo than to do.

He was also wary of upsetting the existing social hierarchy.