Quotes About Instability

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere

The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

The only certainty is that nothing is certain

that those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.

I'll have to jump around like sodium in the rain.

What is our greatest strength when we are balanced often is our worst weakness when we are out of sorts.

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

but personally, he could never be anywhere without sooner or later wanting to go somewhere else... Likewise he had never been able to build anything permanent with other human beings.

Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.