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Quotes About Instability

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
~ Gary Oldman
In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
~ Aaron Schock
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
~ Louis C. K.
The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.
~ Alberto Fernandez
As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that's what makes me say yes to so many things, because there's always a fear that you won't have a job.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
~ Spalding Gray
It is the beauty and curse of this industry that you never know what is around the corner.
~ Sian Clifford
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
~ Ellen Tauscher
To take over a government through military force would create instability, and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave a legacy of having taken over the government through military means. It has never occurred to me to have a coup d'etat.
~ Suharto
Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
~ Malik Jackson
Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.
~ James Wolfensohn
By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.
~ Ashraf Ghani
When one talks about six coaches in four seasons something's wrong, something bad's going on.
~ Roberto Carlos
the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.
~ Richard Phillips
Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.
~ Richard Pryor
she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it ("Don't talk to me that way, Frank, or I'm leaving. I mean it") or the minute anything went wrong.
~ Richard Yates
People think I'm unstable, but I tell you, Rose is ten times worse. Of course, that makes it harder for people to fuck with you, so I'm all for it." - Christian Ozera to Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Acdemy)
~ Richelle Mead
I'm just confused. I can't read your signals. One moment you're hot, the next you're cold. You tell me you want me, you tell me you don't. If you picked one, that'd be fine, but you keep making me think one thing and then you end up going in a completely different direction. Not just now—all the time.
~ Richelle Mead
If the same guy's still here, he's not really all that stable either. Actually has the balls to call himself Golden Arrow.
~ Richelle Mead
That creates instability, too." "Or maybe
~ Richelle Mead
Think about it: the presumption of stability creates all the wrong reflexes. It allows for inertia and power to build up along
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
The age of comparative anarchy is upon us.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
~ Robert Greene
Volatile people, you can't trust them, that's the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson