Quotes About Stability

Thus, maintaining a good image of the parent is mistakenly perceived by the patient as being essential to stability and security; yet, paradoxically, its preservation perpetuates self-hatred.

The balance of power.

Surveys of many cultures around the world consistently show that, in looking for a long-term partner, women prefer men who have, or have the potential of, wealth, status, stability and durability.

older women often 'fit in' a stable homo-sexual relationship between successive heterosexual ones

A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up

Clerres is the heart of the world, and the heartbeat of the world must always be steady.

When settled people look for security, they look for continuity." Here

the most common model for ministry now is someone who is well married (preferably with children), respected, pious, and doesn't "cause trouble.

built up on stilts.

Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.

Joy doesn't smart-tongue him. It's not because he tries to control her as a proper Chinese father should or that she's an obedient Chinese daughter. Instead, she's like a pearl in his palm - forever precious; to Joy, he's the solid ground on which she walks - forever steady and reliable.

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

the Barrayaran officer corps favored heterosexual marital stability in its senior members mainly to cut down on the potential for ambient personal dramas slopping over into work, as they tended to do.

Los capitanes vienen y van, pero las administraciones viven eternamente

We must not lose touch with what we were, with what we had been, nor must we allow the well of our history to dry up, for a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition can also be an anchor of stability and a shield to guard one from irresponsibility and hasty decision.

Folks that prosperous don't usually pick up and move. Mostly, movers are poor folks.

It was born then, this idea that I must have books, not only for our children but for Abigail and myself. We must not lose touch with what we were, with what we had been, nor must we allow the well of our history to dry up, for a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition can also be an anchor of stability and a shield to guard one from irresponsibility and hasty decision.

a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

To curb further abuse, Hamilton recommended a Supreme Court that would consist of twelve judges holding lifetime offices on good behavior. In this manner, each branch would maintain a salutary distance from popular passions.

reassure worried investors

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. It will be powerful cement of our union.

Without the federal ratio, Hamilton glumly concluded, "no union could possibly have been formed." Indeed, the whole superstructure erected in Philadelphia rested on that unstable, undemocratic foundation.

No governm[en]t could give us tranquillity and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad.

He could not immediately regain his balance.