Chaos Quotes - Page 15

• Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

  Corey Taylor

  Light, Darkness, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Moving, Wind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 03, 2015

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• Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

  Auguste Comte

  Ideas, World

  Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.499, Transaction Publishers

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• I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

  Toni Morrison

  Order, Imagination, Silence

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• The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

  Chris Gethard

  Middle, Access

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Order, Understanding, World

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

  Ben Chestnut

  Focus, Entropy

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• But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

  David Letterman

  Florida, Long, Voting

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• With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle, but unfortunately he fell off and sustained cuts to his face and hands. Apparently Bush was distracted by the enormous responsibilities of the presidency. I'm just kidding. He hit some gravel or something.

  Craig Kilborn

  Responsibility, Cutting, Weekend

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• Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Years, Giving, Able

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• 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.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

  Hugh Prather

  Mind, Whole

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• The spirit of the music and the energy that kicks back from the fans inspires me. To stay centered amidst the chaos I meditate. I first meditated at age 17 and have continued off and on through the years.

  Paul Rodgers

  Years, Inspire, Age

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• It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

  Elliott Smith

  Absence, Easier, Situation

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• People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Creative, Pieces

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• Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

  Rand Paul

  Islam, Middle East, Dictator

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Donald [Trump], is great at - at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate.

  Jeb Bush

  One Liner, Trump, Candidates

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, President, Would Be

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

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• There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Isis, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Isis, Space

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

  Rand Paul

  Islam, Want, Problem

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun.

  Peter Menzel

  Senior, Photography, Art

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• At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Order, Years, Cities

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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