Quotes About Instability

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

This old world will soon break into pieces! Don't you hear the tremblings of it?

The life he'd known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.

Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.

Like it or not, the marketplace isn't stable. The world isn't stable. It's full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.

Look at you quivering like a bag of fresh tofu!

For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty.

all the time she was acting like an actress on a Mike Wallace interview, the tears kept running right down her face. I couldn't even tell if she knew she was crying, Sam. And she kept the act going right up until the time when I left the house. Something is cracking up, Sam. Something is going all to hell, and fast. They seem to be

In the process, Robbie Flak had spent all his money, burned every bridge, alienated almost every friend, and driven himself to the point of exhaustion and instability.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Nada es estable en el mundo. El tumulto es vuestra única música.

The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. All financial innovation involves in one form or another, the creation of debt secured in greater or lesser adequacy by real assets.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.