Quotes About Stability

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

Leopards don't change their spots

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed, it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me were good, and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What more could I want? Why, liberty!

There is no upside to downward financial mobility,

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Without grounding, we are unstable; we lose our center, fly off the handle, get swept off our feet, or daydream in a fantasy world.

We won't make a drama out of a crisis.

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

We are going to secure this country. We are going to manage it properly. We will continue to improve the situation, security, economy, and fighting corruption.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.