Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

There are certain principles, all of which center around building systems and practices that teach workforces how to internalize and master these three attributes, that are realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. Its important to note than one never fully masters them, the pursuit lasts a lifetime, but it is a very gratifying pursuit.

The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again." Human nature always superimposes itself - its strength and its frailty over the rush of chaos of ongoing events - and we can perceive patterns and themes and motifs.

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

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

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.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

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.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

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

This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.

Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

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.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

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

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

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

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

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.