Chaos Quotes - Page 40

• I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

  Barack Obama

  Morning, Book, Tea

  "What's in Obama's 'book full of death'" By Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

  Michael Jackson

  Pain, Stress, Order

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• Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

  Adi Da

  Currents

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• I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Beautiful, Heart, Loss

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• I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.

  J-Ax

  Sorry, I'm Sorry

  "Sons of Anarchy: Suits of Woe". TV Series, 2014.

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• I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

  Alexis Knapp

  Serenity, Used

  "Interview: Kirby Bliss Blanton and Alexis Knapp on Project X". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

  Anne Frasier

  Lying, Believe, Order

  Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.382, Theresa Weir

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• You are never lost when you can see the temple. The temple will provide direction for you and your family in a world filled with chaos. It is an eternal guidepost which will help you from getting lost in the 'mist of darkness.' It is the 'House of the Lord.' It is a place where covenants are made and eternal ordinances are performed.

  Gary E. Stevenson

  House, Darkness, Temples

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• The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Devil

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

  David Walker

  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Order, Mind

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension ... There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Two, People

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• Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

  Graham Norton

  Jobs, Moving, House

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• Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Believe, Lines, Today

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  Jackee Harry

  Struggle, Trying, Calm

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• Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

  Alan Watts

  Losing, Defeated, Always Losing

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.72, Sounds True

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• I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Pain, Important

  "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

  Anna Silk

  Challenges, Welcome, Parenthood

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Trying, World

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Drama, Spring

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• I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

  Fiona Shaw

  Talking, Knowing, Stranger

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

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• When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

  Charlie Kaufman

  Distance, Writing, Emotional

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2008.

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• But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Fall, Rising Up, Space

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Ifs

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.140, Multnomah

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• Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

  Israel Zangwill

  Spiritual, Art, Struggle

  Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”

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