Quotes About Unstable

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

parlous state

This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.

Iofur's playing a difficult game. But he's clever. He's done what they both want. He's kept Lord Asriel isolated, to please Mrs. Coulter; and he's let Lord Asriel have all the equipment he wants, to please him . Can't last, this equilibrium. Unstable. Pleasing both sides. Eh? The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon. I have it on good authority.

Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.

But now I know it is the earthAnd not the water that is unstable,For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tideIt seems as though it were the shingleAnd the waving forest of sea-growthThat moves—and not the water!

This business will never hold water.

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

Alice's illness had turned her into the center of mass around which the rest of the family moved in anxious orbits, like unstable planets.

A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.

for systems belonging to the singular part of the stability boundary a small change of the parameters is more likely to send the system into the unstable region than into the stable region. This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.

Centuries-old ways of looking at the world, centuries-old rules, are jettisoned seemingly overnight. Traditions are mocked and banished. A man—or woman—with an unstable mind sees things falling apart. 'The center cannot hold; / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.' To a psychopath, anarchy is exciting, the chaotic world reflects his chaotic interior life, confirms his conviction that anything should be allowed, that he can rightly do whatever he wants.

They're angry. Unstable. And no doubt armed.

Employment does not necessarily protect people from precarious living.

The problem with political correctness is that comedians have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile and least stoic people in the country.

Easy come, easy go.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Delirium: unmoored and drifting.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which the norms of society had broke down.

Things of this world all eventually reveal what incapable anchors they really are.

signs of identity disturbance, being impulse ridden, unstable in love relations, and she can become intensely volatile and angry.

Like everything else in Ike's life, it was barely hanging together and lucky to be running.

Marley era giovane ed esuberante, con la capacità di attenzione di un'alga e l'instabilità della nitroglicerina. Era così eccitabile che qualsiasi interazione lo agitava enormemente, producendo in lui la particolare esuberanza di un espresso triplo.