Quotes About Instability

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure!

If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.