Quotes About Instability

Cel ce tinde sa urce mereu mai sus trebuie sa se astepte ca, intr-o buna zi, sa-l surprinda ameteala. Ce inseamna ameteala? Teama de a cadea? Dar cum se face ca ne cuprinde ameteala chiar atunci cand ne aflam pe o belvedere prevazuta cu o balustrada solida? Ameteala e altceva decat teama de a cadea. E vocea golului de sub noi, care ne atrage, ne ispiteste, trezind in noi dorinta caderii, careia ne impotrivim apoi, cu teama.

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

My mood depends on the girl whom I love, but she is like a wildest hurricane, drifting shore to shore.

It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.

The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance.

Esto no es una tragedia. El cristal se rompe tan fácilmente... Por cuidadoso que uno sea. El tránsito hace trepitar los estantes y las cosas se caen

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

You have single men, moving from parish to parish, with no family of their own. It was a formula for disaster." Like

Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are." "Sure I do," I say irritably. "Right next to the world's big fat hairy asshole, upon which I seem to be stuck in superglue lately, waiting for it to have its next case of explosive diarrhea.

Am I being persecuted?" He smiles faintly. "If only it were that personal. Life fucks you anonymously. It doesn't want to know your name, doesn't give a shit about your station. The terrain never stops shifting. One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are.

If only it were that personal. Life fucks you anonymously. It doesn't want to know your name, doesn't give a shit about your station. The terrain never stops shifting. One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are.

impermanence of things and how nothing stayed the same no matter how much you wanted it to.

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The situation was grim. My main leader had become what mushers refer to as an "alligator," liable to attack anything or anybody.

Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.

Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.