Quotes About Instability

There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

Here's a simple complication: What do I mean when I say the word nature? Even as I build it, my answer shifts. I picture the simultaneously increasing and decreasing heft at the tops of the sand dunes Edward Abbey describes in Desert Solitaire. The instability that is the only stable truth beyond the angle of repose.

Suenan como un centenar de bombas de tiempo esperando por explotar.

Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake.

The United States will deal with it as it always does, with its citizens going through a decade of intense political rage at each other, accompanied by an economic crisis and a social one: the old against the young, and the problem of innovation leading to instability. Finally, the political process will create a solution, with a failing president who worships the old cycle, followed by one who will claim credit for presiding over the new cycle and its solutions.

The rim of the cup shuddered. Her fingers were shaking.

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resents domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. Physically, and, to an extent, mentally, a robot—any robot—is superior to human beings. What makes him slavish, then? Only the First Law! Why, without it, the first order you tried to give a robot would result in your death. Unstable? What do you think?" "Susan

Todo tiembla bajo nuestros pies, no conocemos seguridades, si nos preguntan cómo estamos, la respuesta es «sin novedad» o «más o menos»; nos movemos de una incertidumbre a otra, caminamos cautelosos en una región de claroscuros, nada es preciso, no nos gustan los enfrentamientos, preferimos negociar.

Le advierto que Ryan Miller es una persona inestable, con un posible trastorno nervioso, que puede haber cometido los asesinatos que se le atribuyen en un estado mental alterado. En cualquier caso, para nosotros está quemado. —Es decir, ya no les sirve, se ha convertido en un problema y no saben qué hacer con él. Miller es desechable. ¿Eso es lo que me está diciendo, agente Fournier? —Usted lo está diciendo, no yo.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.