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Quotes About Instability

I was angry, you know. The kind of angry that makes you feel dangerous. Under my feet, the earth shook. I imagined how it would look when everything began to fall.
~ Deb Caletti
The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.
~ Alexander Blok
When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.
~ Jean Webster
Her body feels like cracked glass, already shattered, and held in place only by a trick of temporary gravity. One wrong move and she will come to pieces.
~ Jeanine Cummins
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
~ Jeannette Walls
He saw something more in those eyes. The emotion wasn't nakedly apparent, but Mr. Cawley was a professional at reading the subtleties of people. The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actually help fuel success. Insecurity drove billionaire entrepreneurs. Emotional instability made for superb art. The need for attention built great political leaders. But anger, in his experience, led only to inertia.
~ Jeff Hobbs
The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actually help fuel success. Insecurity drove billionaire entrepreneurs. Emotional instability made for superb art. The need for attention built great political leaders. But anger, in his experience, led only to inertia.
~ Jeff Hobbs
Yes, somehow I'd reached the point of mental instability where I was making up excuses to justify my actions to my own brain.
~ Jeff Strand
You could beat an orphan to death with a dead nun and not deserve what will happen to you if Mr. Burke catches us. I don't want to overhype him, but the man is mentally unhinged!
~ Jeff Strand
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ¿qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Oh, and I'm dependent on antianxiety meds, the only therapist I ever had died from a fall down a flight of stairs, and there's a viral video of me losing my mind at a public event, taken just before my own arrest. I'm not what anyone would call a reliable witness.
~ Alison Gaylin
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
~ Joseph Addison
England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
~ Victor Ponta
As wealthy as you are, nothing, nothing, nothing guarantees you that through a breakdown of relationship, your kids won't end up on the streets. It's nothing to do with wealth: sometimes it can be down to other things, like the breakdown of relationships.
~ Vincent Kompany
It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.
~ Bill Cowher
It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.
~ Jolene Blalock
The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.
~ Katie Porter