Quotes About Instability

Rosy. Indeed! Good lack, good lack, to think of the instability of human affairs! Nothing certain in this world — most deceived when most confident — fools of fortune all.

Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

the whole world felt like a loaded gun on a hair trigger.

Life could crash and spin out, pretty much overnight.

You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.

That was the moment at which he realized that he had possibly become unhinged. What did it matter? The whole world was unhinged.

Ah, ah, ahhh ... first one gets mad, then one goes mad

damn this world that just won't hold still for us!

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

A habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

there is no such thing as permanence or solidity—that every thing and every being in this world is undergoing constant change.

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable.

There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.

Broken DNA causes genome instability, I wrote, which distracts the Sir2 protein, which changes the epigenome, causing the cells to lose their identity and become sterile while they fixed the damage. Those were the analog scratches on the digital DVDs. Epigenetic changes cause aging.

The highest things are always the first to go. The basic things, the animal things, are preserved the longest. The high always falls. The low can't fall.

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

None of your husbands ever stuck around long enough for you to tell. You change marital partners like the rest of us change underwear," Mary Alice retorted.

What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed.