Chaos Quotes - page 5

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. (Khaled Mashal)
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. View quote
Mary Shelley
Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
An artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty. View quote
William Dean Howells
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once. View quote
Sarah Dessen
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order. View quote
Robertson Davies
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. View quote
Cornel West
I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos. View quote
Mike Tyson
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. View quote
Arthur Miller
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!" (Bill Bailey)
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. View quote
Walter de la Mare
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos. View quote
Mel Odom
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. View quote
Melody Beattie
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. View quote
Rick Riordan
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage. View quote
Rick Riordan
Piper!” Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.” "Thought you'd never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back! View quote
Rick Riordan
As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. View quote
Rick Riordan
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. View quote
Andrew Pyper
What do you see, Captain?” "Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under...the sun. I see Prince and myself.” "Which is which?” "I don't know, Mouse. (Samuel R. Delany)
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation. View quote
Bill O'Reilly