Quotes About Instability

I really don't know if I should smile or frown? All I know is that right now I feel like I'm slowly breaking down.

Home can go from being the best place on earth to the worst place in the space of about 20 nanoseconds.

This person is now lost to her for ever. She is someone adrift in her life, who doesn't recognise it. She is unmoored, at a loss. She is someone who weeps if she cannot find a shoe or overboils the soup or trips over a pot. Small things undo her. Nothing is certain any more.

She is someone adrift in her life, who doesn't recognise it. She is unmoored, at a loss. She is someone who weeps if she cannot find a shoe or overboils the soup or trips over a pot. Small things undo her. Nothing is certain any more.

We will hit the ocean or the ground at speed and we will explode like cans of soda.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Life is incredibly contingent and unexpected.

Lucas was starting to feel like a yo-yo, and Iowa City was the finger.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Nothing is permanent in the wicked world, not even our TROUBLES.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

Within this mercurial reality, our happiness depends less on how well or badly we tackle the myriad ordeals of our lives than on how dexterously we withstand the fact that the ground underneath our feet shifts constantly.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.