Quotes About Instability

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

amounting to a collapse of the Afghan state in months to years.

The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.

And just like that, it all goes. You think it will never change but that's a lie. Things can change in a day.

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Lo único cierto era el peso en la boca del estómago la sospecha física de que algo no andaba bien, de que casi nunca había andando bien.

There's nothing permanent in the world

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Iraq is falling apart.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Nous sommes comme les glaces, dit Manuel à voix basse. La vie nous fait parfois chavirer et nous change de forme.

You'd think you could count on your feelings, but no: they scurry around like mice, leaving horrid droppings wherever they go. You're always having to clean up behind them.

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.

the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops as part of some broader drive to the Indian Ocean and the oilfields of the Gulf, was reacting in a cautious and often confused way to the growing instability inside Afghanistan.

As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake." "Wow...," I breathed. She frowned at me. "That was a great metaphor," I said. "Oh please." "I need to write that down," I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.

When I was growing up, there was a lot of unpredictable behavior and intense emotion. There was intense love and there was intense rage. There was intense laughter and intense hurt. But even the good times were dicey, because they could turn in an instant.

lest she be blown away by a capricious wind.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

I'm so moody all the time; I know I couldn't be able to run a country, because I would be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, you know?

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.