Chaos Quotations

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

There's chaos out there and chaos means opportunity.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

What this demonstrates is that Iraq is really skating on the edge of chaos, that things can go very bad very quickly.

We feel that the refugees and victims have already gone through enough and to send a bunch of unorganized things just adds to their chaos and adds to their problems.

Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there?s too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new (agreement). This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.

chaos: it has no plural.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

The end is built into the beginning.

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.