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Quotes About Instability

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
~ Thomas Fuller
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would've moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.
~ Richard D. Wolff
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
El único consuelo es entrar en el caos, volverse caótico también
~ Mario Benedetti
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
~ Lee Trevino
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
~ Tavis Smiley
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
~ Norbert Wiener
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
He's done more U-turns than a dodgy plumber.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
~ John Steinbeck
The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.
~ Martin Amis
Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Love could turn vicious instantly.
~ Mary Burton
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
~ Mary Douglas
A Maddow–O'Donnell handoff is always drearily about anti-Republican solidarity, just as a Tucker Carlson–Sean Hannity baton-pass, while less formalized, never leaves the anti-Democrat theme for a second. We are always at war with each other. It never stops, not for one second. This is a profound expression of political instability at the top of our society.
~ Matt Taibbi
The instability of levels produces not only the intellectual experience of disorder, but the vital experience of giddiness and nausea, which is the awareness of our own contingency and the horror with which it fills us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The organism is an edifice of compensated instabilities (cf. walk, lose one's balance, catch oneself). Sich bewegen= to organize the instability oneself, and thereby dominate it (the Sich defined without 'consciousness').
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There is an undercurrent of cultural changes in the Middle East region driven by the globalization of media and the Internet. Smart leaders will anticipate these changes and initiate gradual democratic reforms to avoid political instability and economic problems.
~ Unknown
La stabilità del potere spegne le speranze di quanti non l'hanno e che potrebbero ottenerlo solo per un mutamento di governo, perché è l'instabilità ad assicurare i rivolgimenti della fortuna di cui quasi tutti hanno bisogno per migliorare la propria condizione.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.
~ Melina Marchetta
Being home always made her feel like she was walking on a high wire, waiting for a gust of wind to knock her to the ground. The
~ Melissa Marr
Quem está a balançar: sou eu, é a cadeira ou é o mundo?
~ Mia Couto
They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.
~ Unknown