Chaos Quotes - Page 16

• When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's when it gets dangerous, because they haven't yet reached a balance. So Germany united in 1871 and all hell broke loose. Japan rose in the early 20th century, and then you had chaos. So we're looking at a systemic shift. Be ready for war.

  George Friedman

  Country, War, Japan

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• And for those of us who have, you know, looked in sort of the established order of the political fray over the course of the past several years, it looks like chaos. But to the people I think it looks like democracy. And I think that that's something that really is moving us to a new reality, where the parties are going to have to retrofit themselves and adapt to this new realignment.

  Ben Domenech

  Party, Moving, Past

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Antidote

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Needs, Force

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Mean, Anarchy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Iranians also see external reasons for caution. Analyst Foad Izadi at Tehran University says Iranians only need to look at the chaos plaguing the region to see how easily popular demands for change can get out of hand.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Hands, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate and he'd be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.

  Renee Montagne

  Country, President, Needs

  "Breaking down the GOP presidential debate" by Adam C. Smith, Alex Leary, www.tampabay.com. December 16, 2015.

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• In chaos, there is opportunity.

  Karl Rove

  Opportunity

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• The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course the deaths of Iraqis are not played up as much. But when they count the corpses they see women and children. We are constantly killing the people who are suspected of something. Now, in the United States or under any decent system of justice, you don't kill people on suspicion. That's what you do when you bomb a house because there are suspected leaders there. But we've been doing that again and again and the result has been a toll of thousands of civilians.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, People, Justice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it. You can't run the world, but you can entrust it to God. This is the message behind Paul's admonition to "rejoice in the Lord." Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord. Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty, as Paul did. Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.

  Max Lucado

  Running, Track, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.

  Jon J Muth

  Running, Kids, Together

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• John Belushi infused Animal House with this spirit of guerilla filmmaking. John Landis came from that world too, and all the National Lampoon writers were from that world. It was just chaos on film. Controlled chaos, though. We stayed very close to the script. It was a very formal kind of movie, if you look at it. Formally photographed and structured, with certain elements of improv.

  Tim Matheson

  Animal, House, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

  Daniel Clowes

  Military, Film, Complicated

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• In 2008, when I was wrapped up a very toxic relationship, I lived out of my car for about four months to get away. And what I learned about myself in the process is that sometimes a safety net isn't really that safe; it's what keeps you from flying. That year I went from playing football to being a football player. Football wasn't paying my bills, but people didn't really know how bad it was. That was the one place in the world that when everything else was chaos, I could be great. I think we all have that place where we experience greatness. Football definitely saved my life.

  Jennifer Welter

  Football, Player, Greatness

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Yes I can list all sorts of organizational forms and cultural issues that can get in the way of our accessing our inner creativity and bringing it out in our world. And we can use all kinds of approaches that can transform the organization. But unless we have developed a sense of our Self (who we are at core, at our highest) and our Work (the purpose of our existence, the gift that we have to give to the world) and use that to deal with the inner obstacle, we can't sustain creativity in the face of the chaos of the world.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Giving, Purpose

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Meditation gives you two things: equanimity and creativity. And it does that by taking one from their conscious mind, where there's all that noise and chaos and so on, into the subconscious mind where there's quiet and where creativity emanates from. You have a mantra, and when you repeat it over and over again, all those thoughts go away because you shift them to that mantra. And then eventually that sound disappears, and then you're left not conscious or unconscious - you're left in this subconscious state, and by opening that up, first of all you get control of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Creativity, Giving, Meditation

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• You can't have a democracy with an armed political party willing to bomb its neighbor without the consent of its government or, you know, just deciding, "Well, let's create enough chaos and discord by lobbing rockets. And so the reality is in order for Lebanon to succeed and we want Lebanon's democracy to succeed the process is going to the Lebanese government's eventually going to have to deal with Hezbollah.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Reality, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing. Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist. Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, Strong, Children

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

  Bruce Lee

  Simplicity, Harmony, Discord

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• Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

  Joey Comeau

  House

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• I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Absurd, Splendid

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• Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

  Elliott Smith

  Cheating, Drag

  Song: Baby Britain, Album: XO

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• One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Long, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

  Linda Gray

  Writing, Magic, Energy

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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