Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

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

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

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 live in a rainbow of chaos.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

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 must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.