Careening Quotes

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. (John Irving)
How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart. View quote
Tosca Lee
Contemporary China is a complex society in transition. The kinds of technological and social changes that took societies in the west centuries to move through have sometimes been experienced by a mere two generations in China. The anxiety of careening out of balance, of being torn by parts moving too fast and too slow, is felt everywhere. View quote
Liu Cixin