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Quotes About Instability

I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.
~ Santiago Calatrava
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
~ Park Chan-wook
Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.
~ Alison Mosshart
A dancer's life is as peripatetic and unstable as that of an actor's. You're freelancing yourself all the time, and a dancer's lifespan is even shorter than an actor's: once they turn 30 or 35, they have to stop.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.
~ Max Minghella
Saying it out loud as a child is scary, but saying I felt unstable out loud as an adult with children was really scary. The fear of losing your children stops you from saying anything. It's a never-ending battle.
~ Nadiya Hussain
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
~ Don Tapscott
I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.
~ Kara DioGuardi
This business changes on a dime daily. You have your ups and downs, goods and bads.
~ Lance Archer
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.
~ Joe Biden
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.
~ George Osborne
When we feel pain in one time zone—meaning past, present, or future—we just switch to another time zone rather than change, because change brings so much uncertainty and so much instability and so much fear to people.
~ Timothy Ferriss
conlleva mucha incertidumbre y mucha inestabilidad y da mucho miedo a la gente».
~ Timothy Ferriss
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
~ Timothy Geithner
the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of an election and a coup d'état. A
~ Timothy Snyder
Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants. In founding a democratic republic upon law and establishing a system of checks and balances, the Founding Fathers sought to avoid the evil that they, like the ancient philosophers, called tyranny.
~ Timothy Snyder
Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.
~ Timothy Snyder
As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
~ Timothy Snyder
Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
~ Timothy Snyder
they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability,
~ Timothy Snyder
every form of capitalist society harbors a deep-seated social-reproductive "crisis tendency" or "contradiction." On the one hand, social reproduction is a condition of possibility for sustained capital accumulation; on the other hand, capitalism's orientation to unlimited accumulation tends to destabilize the very processes of social reproduction on which it relies.
~ Tithi Bhattacharya
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus