Chaos Quotes - Page 15

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

  Hugh Prather

  Mind, Whole

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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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• Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

  Will Durant

  Real, Mind, Progress

  Will Durant, John R. Little (2002). “The greatest minds and ideas of all time”, Simon and Schuster

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• People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Creative, Pieces

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• Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

  Rand Paul

  Islam, Middle East, Dictator

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• And for those of us who have, you know, looked in sort of the established order of the political fray over the course of the past several years, it looks like chaos. But to the people I think it looks like democracy. And I think that that's something that really is moving us to a new reality, where the parties are going to have to retrofit themselves and adapt to this new realignment.

  Ben Domenech

  Party, Moving, Past

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Iranians also see external reasons for caution. Analyst Foad Izadi at Tehran University says Iranians only need to look at the chaos plaguing the region to see how easily popular demands for change can get out of hand.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Hands, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

  Shannon Hale

  Sweet, Morning, Pain

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• We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Needs, Force

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.

  Jon J Muth

  Running, Kids, Together

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Believe, Blood, Sound

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• With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle, but unfortunately he fell off and sustained cuts to his face and hands. Apparently Bush was distracted by the enormous responsibilities of the presidency. I'm just kidding. He hit some gravel or something.

  Craig Kilborn

  Responsibility, Cutting, Weekend

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• I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Order, Path

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• Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

  Ben Chestnut

  Focus, Entropy

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• But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

  David Letterman

  Florida, Long, Voting

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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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• 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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• Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Years, Giving, Able

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• The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Antidote

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Isis, Space

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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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• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

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• In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Mean, Anarchy

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• 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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