Quotes About Instability

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Man himself is so buffeted by shifts of thought and mood, not knowing from one day to the next what he truly feels, that a shifting earth is well-nigh the last straw.

Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

The instinct towards panic, once experienced, cannot be unlearned.

She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did everything she leaned on instantaneously decay?..

I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--

Comme c'est misérable et trompeur, la vie !.. Il n'y a rien qui dure.

The things the spectacle presents as eternal are based on change, and must change as their foundations change. The spectacle is totally dogmatic, yet it is incapable of arriving at any really solid dogma. Nothing stands still for it. This instability is the spectacle's natural condition, but it is completely contrary to its natural inclination.

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

Towards evening, he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first.

A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.