Quotes About Instability

Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.

Some slight friction threatening in the Balkans, sir.

Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.

Entropy is a bitch

Hoy amamos lo que mañana odiaremos. Hoy buscamos lo que mañana rehuiremos. Hoy deseamos lo que mañana nos asustará e, incluso, nos hará temblar de miedo.

every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

Insanity is my dominant characteristic. - Christina McCall

Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can't stop stealing.

Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward.

We have no future because our present is too volatile.

The whole industry wobbles along like a shopping cart with a missing wheel. You can only keep it moving if you lean on it a certain way and keep pushing, but if you stop, it tips over.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind.

May you always live in interesting times.

Chick and Iggy had never come home the night before, but according to Nina this was a fairly regular occurrence, usually attributable to drugs, women, or both.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

Mirënjohja dhe pasioni janë një cift i paqëndrueshëm dhe organi i meshkujve një objekt jo besnik, pa tru dhe i pajetë, i cili nuk na përket neve dhe që ne nuk kemi për ta kuptuar kurrë.

La vacuité d'un phénomène ou d'une chose, ce n'est pas son inexistence ni son absence, mais sa nature instable, mobile, subjective, complexe…