Quotes About Instability

Jenna," he started, "my life is so up in the air. I have nowhere

How easily it can all be washed away. Power, happiness, even life itself. It only takes an instant, a single unguarded instant. And it's gone.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

A felicidade que sentira apenas alguns instantes antes agora dava lugar a uma terrível certeza de que a iria perder

I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.

She was too often too close to off balance, she knew that.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.

Political instability is manifesting itself in Africa as a chronic symptom of the underdevelopment of political life within the imperialist context. Military coups have followed one after the other, usually meaning nothing to the mass of the people, and sometimes representing a reactionary reversal of the efforts at national liberation.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy.

Wir leben in einem Haus, das ständig zusammenzubrechen droht, und können nicht viel mehr unternehmen, als hier einen Balken abzustützen und dort das Dach zu flicken, damit es nicht hineinregnet. Wenn du dann morgens durch die Stube gehst, brichst du schon wieder durch die Dielen.

Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

solutions, can be very volatile.

The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

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.'

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Now they're saying all this terrorist activity could lead to higher oil prices. When asked why, the oil companies said, "Cause everything leads to higher oil prices." In fact, the price of crude oil could hit $80 a barrel. That's not crude -- that's obscene.