Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

A hole is nothing but what remains around it.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Better never than late.

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

CEOs must master three essential attributes, realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. One's capacity in each determines their ability to cope with today's business environment.

By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.