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Quotes About Instability

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
~ Christopher Lasch
The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
~ Dashiell Hammett
It's not a very secure industry but it's one we all love and enjoy doing.
~ Sam Allardyce
We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.
~ Johnny Flynn
What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
~ Richard Armitage
Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
~ Valorie Curry
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
~ George Carlin
the dynamical pattern characterizing sociopolitical instability in historical societies (see, for example Figure 1.1) is more complex than just a sequence of secular integrative (relatively stable) and disintegrative (relatively unstable) phases. The jagged, "saw-toothed" nature of the trajectory suggests that there is another, shorter cycle superimposed on the longer multi-century oscillations.
~ Peter Turchin
No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
~ Philip K. Dick
But nothing surprises me now. I've grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.
~ Philip Kerr
It might interest you to know,' she said, 'that many of Josef Kahn's fellow inmates at the Herzeberge Asylum are those whose organic dementia is a direct result of their syphilis. Contradictory statements can be made and accepted. The mood varies between euphoria and apathy, and there is general emotional instability. The classic type is characterized by a demented euphoria, delusions of grandeur and bouts of extreme paranoia.
~ Philip Kerr
Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.
~ Philippe Ariès
We're all in danger.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.
~ Brie Larson
It's a volatile time.
~ Jeb Bush
It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.
~ Erik Spoelstra
I always end up in these volatile situations.
~ Justin Lin
Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
~ Rory MacLean
Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
~ Raghuram Rajan
Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.
~ Dara Khosrowshahi
We are facing extreme volatility.
~ Carlos Ghosn
In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.
~ Gordon Brown
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
~ Agnes Smedley
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
~ Germaine Greer