Chaos Quotes - Page 30

• Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

  Amy Poehler

  Trying

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.180, Pan Macmillan

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• Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, America, World

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• I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.

  Robert Vaughn

  Crazy, Caught, I Can

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• There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

  Laura Miller

  Dysfunction, Government, Waiting

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• Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Simple, Technique, Facts

  "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

  Kofi Annan

  Risk, Suffering, Killing

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• When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

  Ben Okri

  Eras, Deities, Chiefs

  Ben Okri (2015). “Stars Of The New Curfew”, p.71, Random House

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• Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

  Steven Hall

  Texas

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Vanity, Political, Berlin

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• Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.

  Jim Calhoun

  Team, Blessed, Kids

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• Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.

  Jon Foreman

  Stars, Pain, Home

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• NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

  James Zogby

  Law, Effort, Community

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• We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

  Debora Spar

  Demand

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• Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

  Pat McCrory

  Return Back, People, Perspective

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• Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

  Lawren Harris

  Change, Unity, Mind

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• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Law, Anarchy

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• There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, World, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.901, Harvard University Press

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• At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Book, Home, Gone

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

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• What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Trying

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• There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Women, Issues

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• What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Opportunity, Order

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Dream, Writing, Order

  "Watch ‘Inception’ In Real Time & Ten Key Quotes From Chris Nolan’s Interview With Brother Jonathan" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Running, Ideas, Our World

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• When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Moving, Water, Ordinary

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