Quotes About Instability

L'instabilité des choses a pour corrélat l'impuissance de l'homme.

The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

his son was a weak and mentally unstable young man with sadistic inclinations—which went a long way toward explaining his current flirtation with the British—

the whole worl's in a state o' chassis

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which prosperity wasn't taken away. For most people, for most of history, it's not true that religion, work and love have led to successful, happy lives. Instability, fear, disease, and war are so much more common that our lives are tremendous exceptions. Isn't that miraculous?

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

ora so che il nostro mondo è tanto instabile quanto un'onda che si innalza in mezzo all'oceano. Quali che siano stati i nostri conflitti e i nostri trionfi, per quanto indelebile sia il segno che questi abbiano potuto lasciare su di noi, finiscono sempre per stemperarsi come una tinta ad acquerello su un foglio di carta.

Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep. But he was really good at giving head.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

Because gravity shapes space and time, it allows space time to be locally stable but globally unstable. On the scale of the entire universe, the positive energy of the matter can be balanced by the negative gravitational energy, and so there is no restriction on the creation of whole universes. Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6.

Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.