Chaos Quotes - page 2

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. (George Santayana)
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. View quote
Bruce Schneier
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. View quote
Bob Dylan
Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. View quote
Steven Erikson
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. View quote
Werner Herzog
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams -- can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. View quote
William Wordsworth
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. (Walter Benjamin)
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. View quote
William Shakespeare
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. View quote
Oscar Levant
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. View quote
Phil Knight
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
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. View quote
John Coleman
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. View quote
Helen Reddy
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. View quote
Dave Reichert
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. (Lorna Luft)
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. View quote
Rocco DiSpirito
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi