Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

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.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition

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

O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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

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

Order and creativity are complementary.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad.

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

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

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

People in my band and in my life see me as someone who is seeking out chaos, and that's why it comes to me. And these people who have never met me say because of when I was born and how the planets are aligned, chaos sees me as a portal.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

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

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

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

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.

Re-forming after the chaos,” I said, remembering Raquel’s words. “Choosing what we’ll do with how things are now, who we’ll be in this new world where the only magic left is what we make ourselves.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its 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.

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

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

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

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

She carries chaos like an overcoat.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Silence is also conversation.

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.