Quotes About Instability

Equilibrium is dead

shook my head. Bombs fell from the sky. Boys fell from trees. Anything might happen. Anytime.

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

Çok h?zl? hareket eden dalgac?klard?r. Kuantum mekani?inin garip kurallar?na göre yok olup yeniden ortaya ç?karlar, var olan ?eyler hiçbir zaman kararl? bir durumda olmaz; bir etkile?imden di?erine gerçekle?en bir s?çramadan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildirler.

the last thing I thought I wanted to do was go into show business, a fickle occupation that doled out a sense of uneasiness and humiliation like tepid snacks at movie screenings.

there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Trust not one night's ice.

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

None of us wants trouble, but I fear these are troubled times,

se rejoue, à travers tous ces conflits, ce que Warburg nommera le Nachleben, la "survivance" d'une instabilité déjà centrale à la culture classique elle-même et que Nietzsche, dans La Naissance de la tragédie, avait déjà bien repérée : c'est le conflit de l'"éthos apollinien" et du "pathos dionysiaque". "Le Quattrocento, conclut Warburg, savait apprécier cette double richesse de l'Antiquité païenne.

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Feet have no roots; everyone can fall.

Fortune's a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.

Life has very little even ground.

That Zsadist guy . . . you had to wonder when he was going to lose it. And what he was going to take out with him when he did.

Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.

They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

Everybody wants to see Ukraine - one of the largest countries in Europe - stable with a stable economic situation, because instability in Ukraine can bring instability in the whole region.

Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.