Quotes About Instability

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.

Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.

A week ago, it all seemed so secure. So settled.

The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.

It's amazing how quickly it can all fall apart.

Economic growth driven by large-scale infrastructure investments without equitable provision of education will leave hundreds of millions of people behind, exacerbating inequality, disillusion, and instability.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

A finger's touch had been known to topple civilizations.

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

Desperate people are the most dangerous

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

Wildlife crime goes well beyond just a threat to endangered species but also has impacts on our society, economy and security. It undermines efforts to uphold the rule of law, acts as an agent for corruption, creates a barrier to development and fuels global instability.

Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.

At the 2018 Hero World Challenge, I felt brittle. I felt like a gust of wind could push me over if I wasn't careful.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.