Chaos Quotes - Page 29

• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Home, Fighting, Creating

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Dark, College, Land

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.57

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• Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

  Jack Balkin

  Bullying, Attitude, Men

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• Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

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• I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Isis

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.336

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• All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

  Rick Perry

  Order, Weakness, Lessons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

  Greg Bryk

  Struggle, Soul, Digging

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Believe, Existentialist

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• Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

  Will Durant

  Insecurity, Culture, Creation

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• Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

  Robert Frost

  Clouds, Waiting, Storm

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• For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

  May Sarton

  Art, Order, Born

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

  Joan Baez

  Bloodshed, Carnage

  "Thousands Protest Iraq War", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2005.

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• Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  True Peace

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• I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

  Paul McCartney

  Morning, Tea, Singing

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• Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, World, Nuance

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• You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.

  George W. Bush

  Beautiful, Order, Take Time

  Remarks on the Rescue of U.S. Prisoners of War, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 13, 2003.

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• The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

  Andrew Greeley

  Running, Men, Years

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• For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

  Edward Weston

  Men, Cameras, Facts

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

  Gray Davis

  California, Division, Calling

  "Gray Davis, conciliatory in defeat, accepts the people's verdict". www.cnn.com. October 8, 2003.

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• The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

  Richard Holbrooke

  Creativity, Way, Kind

  "Clinton global aid meeting gathers $1.25 bln". The Malaysian Star, September 18, 2005.

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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• Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Brother, Fall, Brazil

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• Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.

  Steven Pressfield

  Stars, Sea, Organization

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