Quotes About Instability

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

what has happened to him—and to Andrea—has left her feeling like the earth can shift under your feet without a moment's notice so that nothing in the world, no happiness, feels secure.

Now it feels like living with her is a series of small explosions, like he never knows what is coming next.

He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.

Indeed, the instability of families' incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families' incomes.

People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

In a complex system such as our world today, this is all it might take for the overall system to become destabilized, leading to a collapse.

do any of us feel that the world around us is getting more and more stable every day?

The fusion of areas of consciousness which for us are more or less clearly defined leads, as it were, to a perpetual game of hide-and-seek with ourselves and to a confusion of ego positions. Emotional instability, ambivalent pleasure-pain reactions, the interchangeability of inside and outside, of individual and group—all these result in an insecurity for the ego which is intensified by the powerfully emotional and affective "vectors" of the unconscious.

Anything could happen," Spiderleg growled. "RiverClan might chase WindClan off the moor. They might decide to accuse us of taking the kits instead. Leafpool told Firestar that WindClan is desperate enough to do anything.

In that sense, a Lehman-type episode was probably inevitable.

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.