Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

„You know, life is just programmed chaos. Everybody starts out on one side—that’s the programmed part. But then chaos happens, and our album flips. We get fat or thin, or dye our hair and pierce our nose. But those are just our outsides. Our insides are still beautiful, even if we think we’re ugly children.

You need only one taste of madness, and the timeless journey can be spent in thoughts that follow behind like the fiery tail of a comet. And this glowing chaos, the soul will carry under the linings of its peace, to weave beautiful memories with.

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

You’re not wearing your normal dandy attire, but you still cut a figure,” Theo said begrudgingly. “If you think you can approach as a prospective buyer, I’ll sneak around back and try to filch the clockwork maid.” “What is this planning balderdash?” he said, a smile playing on his face. “I thought, with you involved, we’d be marching in and drawing iron.

You’re mine,” he growled. He hoped she really understood that too. That she was his in every sense of the word. And vice versa. The female completely owned him. Until the day he died, he would be hers.

you're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect Mercedes. that's what the big bang proposes. that's what evolution teaches. That chaos gave rise to perfection. But we know it works the other way round don't we?

You use what you have,” La Strega said. “To ward off chaos. And chaos is everywhere.

Your voice tears me away from the reality that I exist and places my mind somewhere in between the infinity and beyond. Where everything is made of bliss and magic. Sometimes, I am scared of not hearing it again and never being able to get separated from this chaotic reality again.

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

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

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

You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.

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.

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

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.

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

Art can make chaos seductive.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Better never than late.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

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.

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

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.