Chaos Quotes - Page 28

• You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

  Ryan Adams

  Army, Sushi, Cleaning

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Writing, Media

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• My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Call Me, My Own, My Friends

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2012.

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Might, Facts, States

  "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by icholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, Satisfaction

  Song: Overlap, Album: Out Of Range

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Community, Choices

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• The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

  Moby

  Ideas, World, Ontology

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• Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Enlightenment

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• I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Years, Childhood, Enough

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• Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Fighting, Order

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• I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Order

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• The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.

  George Gilder

  Powerful, Creativity, Appreciate

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Struggle, Men, Order

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• I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

  St. Vincent

  Dark, Thinking, Sky

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• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Army, Names

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

  Scott Hastie

  Passion, Soul, Unions

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• In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

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• I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  World, Littles, Good Things

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• Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

  Eva Hesse

  Pollock, Knows

  Eva Hesse, Nicholas Serota, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft (1979). “Eva Hesse: sculpture : [catalog of an exhibition held at] Whitechapel Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft”

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• My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Art, Ideas

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• I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another.  One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next,  visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

  Janet Fitch

  Ironic, Next, Waking

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