Quotes About Instability

Histrionic vampires think you're wonderful until they think you're terrible. Then the battle begins.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

In the blink of an eye everything was upside down: gentlemen, bakers, customers, bread loaves, counter, benches, bins, cupboards, sacks, threshers, wheat bran, flour, dough." "What about the musketeers?" "They were busy guarding the Commissioner's house. You can't both sing in the choir and carry the cross.

Yeah," said Jack. "No idea about weather these days.

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Economic crises breed war.

It's the shadow on every kiss and every dollar, that it might not be there tomorrow.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

I've found that instability from growth comes in waves.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.

If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.'

Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.

Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.