Quotes About Instability

if things look good today, they will most assuredly turn to shit tomorrow.

she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.

pleasure or pain may be thought of in psycho-physical relationship to conditions of stability and instability

The Slavs aren't unintelligent of course, just emotionally unstable, liable to great heights and great depths. That is what science tells one. Look at Tchaikovsky. Look at Dostoyevsky.

PÃ…â"¢átelství už jsou taková - kÃ…â"¢ehké konstrukce, které vydrží nápor bouÃ…â"¢e, a pÃ…â"¢esto se mohou rozpadnout na tisíc kousk? bez konkrétního d?vodu. KÃ…â"¢ehké jako bÃ…â"¢idlice.

It's funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down.

They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them. One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

Life can change in an instant.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.

Either there will be a coup d'état, or we will have Muslim extremism.

Given the chance, she would take adventure to security, if security meant building a hut from sticks and settling down to a diet of raw meat and fruit. She would be crazy in a month.

Espionage has something of the quality of a dream. In the spy's world, as in dreams, the terrain is always uncertain. You put your foot on what looks like solid ground and it gives way under you and you go into a kind of free fall, turning slowly tail over tip and clutching onto things that are themselves falling. This instability, this myriad-ness, that the world takes on, is both the attraction and terror of being a spy.

There is in all change something at once agreeable and infamous, something that smacks of infidelity and of moving day.

In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

Friends are hard to come by in L.A., especially in the entertainment industry. I've known a lot of people who hang out with someone because they're working on a show, and as soon as that show gets canceled, they find someone new.

We live in a crazy world. You don't know what's going to happen.

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

Wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way.

I guess I was sad that love was not real? Or not all that real, anyway? I guess I was sad that love could feel so real and the next minute be gone, and all because of something Abnesti was doing.

I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and the wide world not stable. All alter, are altering, in every instant.

Although I believe, like Bagehot, that central banks are inherently destabilising, that doesn't mean that you cannot have financial and economic instability without a central bank. Decentralised monetary systems, if poorly regulated, can also be unstable;