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Source: Different Hours: Poems

“When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.”

Littles Rich Masters Chaos Formal Applause Comprehending

“I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.”

Morning Creation Singing Wake Up Chaos Albums Cups Tea Backyards Cups Of Tea

Author:Paul McCartney

“You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos”

Ifs World Whole Chaos Whole World

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Music creates order out of chaos.”

Order Music Chaos Rhythm Melody Continuity Compatibility Unanimity Harmony In Music Continuity Of Life Melody And Harmony

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.”

World Feels Moments Fine Rain Chaos Breathe Innocence Infinity Nuance Iridescent

Author:Paul Cezanne

“You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.”

Knows Beautiful Order Chaos Take Time

Author:George W. Bush

“Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.”

World Form Artist Order Forever Chaos Conventional Mundane Genesis Unsatisfied Apathetic Artist Love

Author:Rollo May

“City diversity represents accident and chaos.”

Cities Diversity Chaos Accidents

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.”

Men Years Running Church Saws He Man Revolution Late Chaos Ice Catholicism Modest Frozen Council French Revolution

Author:Andrew Greeley

“For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.”

Men Reason Facts Prove Cameras Chaos Obvious Lacking Arrangements Crude

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.”

States Behinds Calling Chaos California Division Recalls

Author:Gray Davis

“The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...”

Way Kind Creativity Chaos Dialogue One Way Intimacy Controlled Intensity Synergy Controlled Chaos

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.”

Order Chaos

Author:Connie Nielsen

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Fall Brother Exciting Chaos Generous Veteran Brazil Grimm Brothers Grimm

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.”

Way Self Stars Principles Sea Built Rivers Organization Chaos Disorder Orbit

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.”

Trying Chaos

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.”

World Years America Four Years Ago Chaos Four Years Mistaken Perpetrators

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.”

Chaos Determined Predictable Chaotic

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.”

I Can Crazy Chaos Caught Caught Up

Author:Robert Vaughn

“There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.”

Helping Government Waiting Chaos Federal Government Dallas Dysfunction

Author:Laura Miller

“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.”

Facts Simple Study Complexes Chaos Technique Mathematical

Author:Neil Gershenfeld

“When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?”

Ifs Suffering Risk Chaos Killing Conferences

Author:Kofi Annan

“When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.”

Music Is Instruments Chaos Chiefs Eras Deities

Book:Stars Of The New Curfew

Source: Stars Of The New Curfew

“Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.”

Chaos Texas

Author:Steven Hall

“Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!”

Action Political Huge Becoming Chaos Vanity Cowardice Maxims Berlin Stink Whining Irresponsibility Political Action

Author:Edmund Stoiber

“Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.”

Thinking Way Years Has Beens Sometimes Kids Team Blessed Chaos

Author:Jim Calhoun

“Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.”

World Looks Home Pain Stars Wonder Our Lives Planets Infinite Chaos Resistance Sane Our Planet Entropy

Author:Jon Foreman

“NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.”

Ends Law Community Results Effort Evidence Chaos Terrorist Immigrants Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:James Zogby

“There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.”

Enough Games Too Much Structure Chaos

Author:Ken Hitchcock

“We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.”

Demand Chaos

Author:Debora Spar

“Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.”

People Helping Young Perspective Return Chaos Return Back

Author:Pat McCrory

“Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.”

Art Artist Choices Fashion Chaos Studios Invites Guests Unwanted

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.”

Knows Mind Change Behinds Existence Watches Harmony Remains Unity Chaos Stable Plastic

Author:Lawren Harris

“Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.”

Artist Order Force Challenges Type Perception Chaos Site Good Art Good Artist

Author:Wolf Kahn

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

Law Order Found Wealth Revolution Birth Destruction Chaos Alternatives Merit Anarchy Regimes Monarchy Feudalism Decrepit

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.”

World Earth Silence Silent Chaos Discouraging

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.”

Book Home Gone Pages Chaos Cooks Torn Spine

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.”

Made Hands Divine Evidence Chaos Believer Skeptic

Book:Public Works: A Dangerous Trade

Source: Public Works: A Dangerous Trade

“What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.”

States Women Perfect Enlightenment All Things Chaos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.”

Men World Trying Facts Order Women This World Enlightenment Chaos Disorder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.”

Men Dream Order Women Natural Issues Enlightenment Chaos Awake Totality Implied

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”

World Artist Effort Creative Chaos Naked Vulnerable Artistic Vulnerability Cosmos Indifferent Nothingness Endeavour

Author:Peter London

“I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.”

World Needs Writing Reason Stories Dream Order Process Brain Subjects Chaos Anarchy Architect Writing Process Graphs

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.”

Giving Art Important Life Is Order Bits Chaos Tension Works Of Art Chaotic

Author:Alfred Brendel

“Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.”

People World Ideas Facts Might Running Together Faces Chaos Confusion Combination Working Together Our World Incompetence

Author:Jonathan Cainer

“When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.”

Way Feels Moving Water Ordinary Strive Extraordinary Chaos Deeper Surface Stillness Shifting

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.”

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