Unstable Quotes

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  If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

  Herodotus

  Fun, Men, Knowing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.

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• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Self, Ethics

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

  Josh Lucas

  Used, Comfortable

  "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 18, 2002.

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

  John von Neumann

  Meteorology, Process, Stable

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• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Oil, Too Much

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• I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

  Lauryn Hill

  Schizophrenic, Knows, Emotionally Unstable

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

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• I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

  James Taylor

  Hands, Mouths, Musician

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

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• When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Daughter, Moving

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• Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

  Plautus

  Men, Delay, World

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• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  Dan Lipinski

  Facts, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Real, Character, Eye

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• In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

  Paul Gillmor

  Aunt, Oil, Middle East

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fall, Feelings, Taoism

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• Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

  Stephen Harper

  Strong, Thinking, Government

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• As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Dad, Father, Kids

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• For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

  John Drinkwater

  Art, Men, Mood

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honor, Fickle, Opinion

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• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.  I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.  I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

  Anais Nin

  Dream, World, May

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• I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11.

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• But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Men, Clouds

  "Fictional chracter: Edward Douglas". "The Island of Dr. Moreau ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, People, Exhibits

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• Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Business, Home, Perfect

  Thomas J. Stanley (2004). “Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen”, p.201, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I can choose to be unstable.

  Elizabeth Swados

  I Can

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