Quotes About Instability

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

I was always in danger. Always. I felt every minute of the day that I was walking a tightrope and any moment I was going to fall. Part of me just wanted it over.

Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, in the middle of the afternoon.

chaos is the condition between order and disorder, the transition between one system and another.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

felt to her as if her family stood poised on the edge of a great precipice that could collapse at any second, crumble away like the houses that crashed down Seattle's unstable, waterlogged hillsides.

That spring, rain fell in great sweeping gusts that rattled the rooftops. Water found its way into the smallest cracks and undermined the sturdiest foundations. Chunks of land that had been steady for generations fell like slag heaps on the roads below, taking houses and cars and swimming pools down with them.

But things changed fast. She knew that now. A horse could get old overnight and go lame. A friend could become a stranger just as quickly.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable World.

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

It was, and then it wasn't. Karou's stomach roiled as she contemplated the possibility of being so suddenly not.

Anyone interested in mortgaging their house and getting stripped of their bank accounts can invest in share market these days. Everyday a new low level is being achieved and with that investors are turning paupers poorer. Across India these investors housing properties are up for sale at throwaway prices

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

There's no such thing as security. There never has been.

Watson in the nineties has been like English cricket in the nineties: an accident waiting to happen.

Instead, the dean had said, "Take a look at the person sitting to your left and to your right. Chances are that person will not be there four years from now." Every

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans.

Any society inevitably produces its criminals, but a society at once rigid and unstable can do nothing whatever to alleviate the poverty of its lowest members, cannot present to the hypothetical young man at the crucial moment that so-well-advertised right path.