Chaos Quotes - Page 14

• Fights problems with bigger problems.

  Elliott Smith

  Fighting, Problem, Bigger

  Song: Baby Britain, Album: XO

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• Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Necessary Evil, Generalities

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Joey Comeau

  Art, Glasses, Sound

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• Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

  Sarah Kane

  Glasses, Here I Am, Dancing

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Past, Mirrors, Order

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Dull, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

  William Shawn

  Believe, Printed Word, Syntax

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• In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

  Alan Armstrong

  World, Conform

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• Man's greatest fear is chaos.

  Marilyn Manson

  Men, Greatest Fear

  "Fear and loathing in LA" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 1999.

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  Cornel West

  People, Lasts, Desperate

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.272, Basic Books

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• It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.

  Teresa Heinz

  Intellectual, Together, Glue

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• Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

  Donna Karan

  Calm, Findings

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• A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Pain, Believe

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Steering, Middle

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

  Shannon Hale

  Sweet, Morning, Pain

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Paris, Allies

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• You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Believe, Blood, Sound

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

  John Fowles

  Order, Opposites, Rose

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

  John Updike

  Order, Devil, Body

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

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• Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

  Will Durant

  Real, Mind, Progress

  Will Durant, John R. Little (2002). “The greatest minds and ideas of all time”, Simon and Schuster

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

  Frank Herbert

  Gathering, Collecting, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.106, Penguin

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• I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Order, Path

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