Chaos quotes
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"In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now."
"I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it."
"Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order."
"You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos."
"War is the most readily available form of chaos."
"Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything."
"Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot."
"Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos."
"Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating."
"Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace."
"What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos."
"By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature."
"Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray."
"take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning"
"I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death."
"Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end."
"We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos."
"Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."
"No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation."
"Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge."
