Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

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.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic 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.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

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.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

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?

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

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

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

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

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.

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

When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

You're an entropic chaos factor

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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

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

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

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.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.