Chaos Quotations | Page 5

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

You've got 2.5 seconds to take the snap, drop back and react. When the ball is snapped, it's chaos. Whoever manages the chaos the best is going to be better off.

the chaos and violence in Iraq is worse than he ever expected.

The chaos and security lapses create fertile ground for our enemies to hold back our people as they struggle for freedom and independence.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

Freedom is not a license for chaos,

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

The deployment of UN troops clearly has deterred vicious attacks on civilians. In those areas where a UN presence is still lacking, chaos and lawlessness reign, despite promises made at the signing of the peace agreement.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

There are people who like to work in chaos, and some people work better under that, and create that sort of chaos, but that makes a set not necessarily very fun. I like to work on sets that don't have that.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from Syria, to Iraq, to Iran, Ukraine, no matter where it is. I just think it is totally counter to our tradition.

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

Disaster and chaos are always good

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

You feel kind of weird cheering for chaos. There is that sense that the crazier it gets, the better off we are. Before, when I was part of the American public, I was hoping for a reasonable and quick solution to the impeachment process. Now, I'm hoping for partisan bedlam and chaos. It's really what serves me best.

I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos ...

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all....

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

Silence is also conversation.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Order and creativity are complementary.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

Music is structure out of Chaos

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

I am myself. That is not enough.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos...

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.