Quotes About Stability

I know I was alright on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that's true of little else.

but I will say this, sir, that a steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work; he is gentle and clever with horses...

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

A firm hand was placed against my chest to steady me and to hold me back.

went on, sweet, and demure, and winding to a compassionate finale. I know your pain. I know. But madness isn't for you. It never was. You're the one who never goes mad.

He had no choice in the matter, if he left her hanging by the straps she'd end up being banged against the side of the aircraft. Not good for her, not good for the plane's stability. You always fastened down a cargo, you didn't leave it loose in the back of a plane. That was all he was doing, he told himself putting his arms around her to hold her limp body still, letting her head loll back against his shoulder. Keeping the cargo secure. It was his own damn fault he was getting hard again.

What did Ethan care? _He_ had no trouble navigating. This was because he'd lived all his life in one house, was Macon's theory; while a person who'd been moved around a great deal never acquired a fixed point of reference but wandered forever in a fog — adrift upon the planet, helpless, praying that just by luck he might stumble across his destination.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

A country with two kings will always falter.

At the heart of most stable governments is a willingness to share power with people you disagree with--and may even hate.