Quotes About Instability

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Stevie clearly didn't have control over her issues. She panicked easy. She cried easy. She exploded into rage real easy. And when she did all three at the same time . . .

Vielleicht steht die Welt gerade am Beginn ihres Unterganges.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

He shook his head to clear it, but the world grew dark and angry and would not stay upright. The world did not like to be shaken. He understood that now. He wouldn't shake it again. He felt his feet sliding away from him on silent roller skates and reached for a wall for support. The wall cursed and dug its fingers into his arm, and was probably not a wall. It was probably a person.

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

Ornon says, Ornon-who-always-has-something-to-say says, the Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. That's what makes us dangerous. -Eugenides

One day she's kissing you, the next she's attacking you . . . Seems like you had a pretty tumultuous relationship, no?" she asked Josh, ignoring Wilkinson completely.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Era in balia di ogni soffio di vento, non possedeva nulla.

A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street.

Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

I realized it was conceivable that Ann and I both, in our own way, were experiencing a crisis, which according to its definition is: (1) a crucial stage or turning point, and (2) an unstable or precarious situation. At the very least

We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?

Bogotá, como todas las capitales latinoamericanas, es una ciudad móvil y cambiante, un elemento inestable de siete u ocho millones de habitantes: aquí uno cierra los ojos demasiado tiempo y puede muy bien que al abrirlos se encuentre rodeado de otro mundo

precaria, su presencia misma en estos lugares donde busca algo de estabilidad la gente cuya vida, por la razón que sea, es inestable.

Vivimos rompiendo nuestro mundo a cada rato...

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.