Quotes About Instability

And then a strong gust blew against her, and her feet slipped just slightly. She jerked forward against the railing, ever so softly. But, rotten, it crumbled like paper, and May and Kitty went sliding forward, right through it. May scrambled to stop herself, but it was too late. They slid a few more feet, then fell off the edge of the roof. They looked like blackbirds faliing out through the sky.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

I've often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions that fall far out of their usual line of character and behaviour. Perhaps a natural reluctance to sit still is central, or perhaps, like the lesser animals, instinct forces us to go on even if grief has left us not up to the task…. In one fleeting moment, I stripped away the petals of my future, let them catch wind, and fly away

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

In the soft apocalypse at Angkor, we can see directly what happens when political instability meets climate catastrophe. It looks chillingly similar to what cities are enduring in the contemporary world.

Whatever equilibrium your nation reaches, there is always someone, at home or abroad, who has reasons to upset it.

Among the short-lived races, pleasure slaves became emotionally unstable after a few years. It took decades among the long-lived races, but eventually the combination of aphrodisiacs and constant arousal without being allowed any release twisted something inside the males. After that, with careful handling, they still had their uses, but not as pleasure slaves. Daemon had been a pleasure slave for most of his life.

Jealousy is a dance in which everyone moves, for it is the instability of the emotional situation that preys upon a jealous lover's mind.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Wars don't start nowadays because people want them. We long for peace, and fill our newspapers with conferences about disarmament and arbitration, but there is a radical instability in our whole world order, and soon we shall all be walking into the jaws of destruction again, protesting our pacific intentions.

Life cracked like ice!

For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

I fall in love fast, and I fall out of love even faster.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.

I know people are fickle.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

Television can be a very fickle place.