Chaos Quotes - Page 14

• The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

  Dan Brown

  Masculine And Feminine, Two, Balance

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

  David Sheff

  Order, Insanity, Chapters

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

  Jerry Garcia

  Music, Reality, Counter Culture

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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• I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Effort

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.

  Richard Bausch

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• Chaos isn't good for your health.

  India.Arie

  Song: Slow Down, Album: Voyage to India

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• The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Dull, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

  Robertson Davies

  Past, Mirrors, Order

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.

  Teresa Heinz

  Intellectual, Together, Glue

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• A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Pain, Believe

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

  Donna Karan

  Calm, Findings

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• The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  Cornel West

  People, Lasts, Desperate

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.272, Basic Books

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Steering, Middle

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

  John Fowles

  Order, Opposites, Rose

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

  Chris Gethard

  Middle, Access

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

  John Updike

  Order, Devil, Body

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

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• A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

  Hugh Prather

  Mind, Whole

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• Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

  Corey Taylor

  Light, Darkness, Stones

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

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Paris, Allies

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