Chaos Quotes - Page 6

• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

  Bob Dylan

  Purpose, Accepting, Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Space, Theory, Scientific Theory

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Spring, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1901). “Every-day Thoughts in Prose and Verse”

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

  Badass, Real, Bad Ass

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Liberty, Cacophony, Speech

  "Judges Turn Back Law To Regulate Internet Decency" by Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

  Linda Hamilton

  Grief, Heart, Loss

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

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• Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Flames, Hands

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 653

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• In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Men, Order

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Impossibility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

  Hugh Mackay

  Stability, Crave, Predictability

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Light, Europe

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

  Kay Boyle

  Memories, Ruins, Reconstruction

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• You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

  Douglas Coupland

  World, Whole, Ifs

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• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

  Rollo May

  Artist, Order, Forever

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• I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

  Connie Nielsen

  Order

  www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

  Phil Knight

  Life, Change, Success

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• Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Perfect, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Civilization, Terror

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• I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

  Byron Katie

  Confusion, Experience, Needs

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• In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Creating, Magic, Tools

  Peter J. Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.75, Weiser Books

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• There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Order

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• I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

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

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• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Trying, Use, Creation

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

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• I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  Jim Morrison

  Starting, Disorder, Revolt

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• We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

  John McCain

  Home, Winning, Iraq

  John McCain's speech at the MSNBC's Republican first presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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