Unstable Quotes - Page 4

• If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Games, Play

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• In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

  James Poniewozik

  Reality, Careers, Choices

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• The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

  Bridget Riley

  Character, Way, Accepting

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• Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

  Liz Miller

  Going Away, Energy, Doe

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Religious, Political, Politics

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• We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mosquitoes, Dry, Exit

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• Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Home, Writing

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

  Simon Helberg

  Dream, Play, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Identity

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• Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.

  Hyman Minsky

  Stability, Crisis, Stable

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• Everybody is as unstable as water.

  Joseph Heller

  Water

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

  Susan Sontag

  Compassion, Needs, Action

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

  David Malpass

  Powerful, Commitment, Swings

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• Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

  Tacitus

  Wisdom, Foundation, Politics

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• The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

  Todd Haynes

  Giving Up, Bisexual, Unique

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

  Finn Wittrock

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: collider.com

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• Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Energy, Exploration

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• America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Oil, America

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• Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ordinary, Way, Lifestyle

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.181, Bantam

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• Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Self

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• All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

  Venerable Bede

  Sea, Storm, Fickle

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• Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  World, Want, Corruption

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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