Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

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When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.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

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

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

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.

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.

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

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

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

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You can organize elections any day, even tomorrow. But what will be the result of chaotic elections? More chaos!

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

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

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

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.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

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

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 have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

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

You're an entropic chaos factor

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

a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

A choice to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the whispers of intuitive wisdom from the heart.

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is -- no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny -- the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

After tail spinning into chaos, one needs a bolt-hole, to resource and ‘challenge’ oneself, break free from the haunting constrictions, squirrel back into bouncy and buoyant surroundings and enjoy the many laugh-out-loud-moments of the day. As soon as one manages to wobble out of one’s shell, everything may click into place again and the radiance and glare of the bright side of life might show again. ("Imbroglio")

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

All things need some degree of order; of substance, form and structure. Show me a storm or the most beautiful day without form, and I’ll show you chaos and dissonance that is not unlike a symphony of wailing scorched cats.

All the cops were tied up trying to maintain control, but it was already lost.