Quotes About Volatile

the United States was a different story. It was, as all the world knew, a completely insane and out-of-hand country, unable to control itself.

You don't want any of your Anchors being members of the opposite sex you're attracted to," Dr. Minerva says. "Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

In particular, it lacked the skills to carry out pacification effectively—or as Kissinger politely put it, "the special qualities developed in a decade or more of combat training do not include discriminating political judgment in volatile and complex circumstances.

The temper of the multitude is fickle

There was nothing for him, and in the end, he had to acknowledge that he was too dangerous to just keep around like some loose cannon

When put into print, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, intangible, indestructible; it mingles with the air. In the time of architecture, it became a mountain, and made itself master of a century and a region. Now it has been transformed into a flock of birds, scattering to the four winds and filling all air and space.

In its printed form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, irresistible, indestructible.

Should that be enough for her? Was she wrong to want passion? To dream of something—someone—more? She'd always imagined love to be turbulent and volatile, an emotion that would sweep her up and break her to pieces and reshape her into someone she couldn't otherwise have become.

Real woman should be capricious.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.

my mother had been about as predictable as a tornado in a square state.

I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.

I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

Excellent. They were flammable.

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something explode.

like sticking a piece of dynamite in my mouth and handing him a lit match.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand's assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history.

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals I'm available to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.

Gregor was involved with something called Volatile Fungus Deportation.

Football is unpredictable.