Quotes About Instability

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

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

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

If you don't have your code, you got nothing to hold you down. You just drift, any way things blow you.

The tricky shiver in the air was a reminder: everything you believe is up for grabs, every ground rule can change on a moment's whim, and the dealer always, always wins.

But what did they protest? Inequality, which is the variety of God. Instability, which is the light of the universes. Uneasiness of mind, which is the soul of philosophy. Apparent injustices, which are the goad of the spirit. Vulnerability to life and other men, which is a charge to become invulnerable through Faith in God. The presence of suffering or misfortune—but these are a call for the soul to put on armor and serenity.

The respect for the rights of minorities that China's Tibetan and Uighur activists champion would prevent instability that could spill across China's borders.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.

But most of them must have the wit to understand that phenomena like these are maddeningly unstable, and that there's no telling what weird, seemingly inconsequential event might cause the system to shift into a radically different configuration.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

The people are Anchors, I say. People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

I'm going to do it tonight. This is such a farce, this whole thing. I thought I was better and I'm not better. I tried to get stable and I can't get stable. I tried to turn the corner and there aren't any corners; I can't eat; I can't sleep; I'm just wasting resources.

but every time I run into her in New York, she has a new guy, making me think she's had more fresh mounts than a Pony Express rider.

I think if I worked with the stuff they worked with, I, too, wouldn't make any long-range plans. Hell, I wouldn't even buy green bananas.

Large numbers of under-capitalized banks were a recipe for financial instability, and panics were a regular feature of American economic life - most spectacularly in the Great Depression, when a major banking crisis was exacerbated rather than mitigated by a monetary authority that had been operational for little more than fifteen years.

Quod nihil sit tam infirmum aut instaible quam fama potentiae non sua vi nixa.'' ''Hiçbir ÅŸey; kendi gücüne dayanmayan bir iktidar?n ünü kadar zay?f ve deÄŸiÅŸken deÄŸildir.