Quotes About Instability

But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

Football is a changeable game. From one day to another, everything could change.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

It's funny how we can be in love with someone one day, and the next we can easily fall in love with someone else.

He was talking too much. People with unstable nerves are like that. One moment monosyllables, next moment a flood.

As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

A mutant individual who was prepared to go on just a little bit longer would always win. So the strategy of maintaining a fixed bidding limit is unstable.

You could never know when everything might change—a mood, a decision, a blanket. A life. They

Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.

It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet.

d) (1850) «De vez en cuando, en las ciudades, abro un periódico. Tengo la sensación de que todo avanza rápidamente. No estamos bailando sobre un volcán, sino sobre las tablas de una letrina, que a mí me huele bastante a podrido. Próximamente, la sociedad se precipitará en la mierda de diecinueve siglos, y se ahogará rápidamente en ella. Se oirán muchos gritos.»

1850) 'From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzy rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There'll be quite a lot of shouting.

And that was when he knew for sure: No one was in charge. No one at all. As he'd suspected, there was very definitely no plan.

From the 1070s, instability in the Holy Land deepened. In 1071 an army led by the Seljuq commander Alp Arslan, or Heroic Lion, routed Byzantine forces at the Battle of Manzikert, in what is eastern Turkey today. The battle, which marked the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia and the slow decline of Byzantium, was a cataclysmic defeat. Humiliatingly Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes was captured and taken prisoner.

Culture was felt to be a fragile achievement, which could always fall prey to the forces of disorder and disintegration.

Like most bullies, he could never sustain any one emotion.

By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.