Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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