Quotes About Fluctuation

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

People don't like to see instability.

When people photograph an object, they often put a pack of cigarettes next to it to give the viewer a sense of the object's actual size, but the pack of cigarettes next to the images in my memory expanded and contracted, depending on my mood at the time. Like the objects and events in constant flux, or perhaps in opposition to them, what should have been a fixed yardstick inside the framework of my memory seemed instead to be in perpetual motion.

What about you, this week? First you completely ignore me like some Hitler Youth ice-maiden, then you turn into an irresistible sex kitten, looking at me over the computer with not so much 'come-to-bed' as just 'come' eyes, and now suddenly you're Jeremy Paxman." We

There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.

I can't speak on transfer value and people's stock and all that. In football things change so quickly.

Fashion's transient - it moves.

Preoedipal pathology manifests not so much in discrete symptoms or guilty, conflictual indecision as in more pervasive disturbances of psychological function: intense, unregulatable feeling states, extreme fluctuation in images of self and/or other, impaired capacity for steady relatedness—disturbances that characterize pathology like masochism and severe depression.

My grandfather was troubled and fascinated by this alteration from the girl of ten days before. Had the flirtatious gamine in the Ingrid Bergman sunglasses been a pose adopted for the evening, while this shapely vessel leaking sadness approximated something closer to the truth of herself? Or was it the other way around? Maybe neither version was the truth. Maybe self was a free variable with no bounded value. Maybe very time you met her, she would be somebody else.

Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.

There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.

As the U.S. stock market had grown less comprehensible, it had also become more sensationally erratic.

Because as much as the world loves you one minute, it can be way down on you the next.

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.

It shows that for most of its recent history Earth has been nothing like the stable and tranquil place that civilization has known, but rather has lurched violently between periods of warmth and brutal chill.

The ekpyrotic process begins far in the indefinite past with a pair of flat empty branes sitting parallel to each other in a warped five-dimensional space … The two branes, which form the walls of the fifth dimension, could have popped out of nothingness as a quantum fluctuation in the even more distant past and then drifted apart.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Luck is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you.

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.