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“There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.”

World Way Term Society Chaos Confusion Appeals Chaos And Confusion

Book:The Happy Critic and Other Essays

Source: The Happy Critic and Other Essays

“When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.”

World Matter Facts Community Simple This World Chaos Emptiness Void Spun Simple Words Words Matter

Book:Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Source: Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.”

Humans Government Technology Products Chaos Efficient Ineptitude

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.”

Children Authority Program Chaos

Book:Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990

Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990

“If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.”

Ifs Men Firsts Mean Law Process Essentials Democratic Chaos Determine Every Man Tyranny One Man Democratic Process

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.”

Way Humans Art Different Facts Common Mankind Source Spring Draws Chaos Ideology Different Ways Human Experience Coherence

Book:Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings

Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true”

Order Opposites Rose Chaos Our Time Liberalism Nazi Fallacy

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.”

Science Values Social Majors Chaos Rational Producers

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.”

Thinking World Way Trying Doe Book Shapes Chaos Patterns Mythology Complexity New Ways Impress Hierarchy Chaotic

Author:Clive Barker

“Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.”

Ifs May Doe Chaos Patterns Accepted Disorder Regularity

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.”

“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”

Order Dangerous Danger Roots Chaos Rage Idealism Reformers Hysterical Idealistic Unbalanced

Book:Evil and world order

Source: Evil and world order

“God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.”

Humans Force Enlightenment Chaos Terror

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.”

Language Cities Objects Chaos Details Stores Newcomers Large Cities

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.”

Hard Growth Grace Hard Work Chaos Illness Sickness Resurrection Begets

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”

Mean Poetry Overcoming Chaos Reasonable Poetry Is

Author:I. A. Richards

“For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.”

People Knows Knowledge Strive Chaos Discredit

Author:Zhuangzi

“Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.”

Lying Chaos Simplicity Concealed

Author:Augustin-Jean Fresnel

“[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then back again to Chaos, The Superstratum which will overlay us.”

World Firsts Has Beens Science Found Change Advice This World One Day Chaos Former Thrown Twisted Back Again Relics Topsy Turvy

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.”

People Thinking Whole Helping One Day Lucky Chaos Whole Life Senses

Author:Billy Idol

“Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.”

Littles Liberty Too Much Chaos Stagnation

Book:Authority and the Individual

Source: Authority and the Individual

“Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.”

Materials Discipline Chaos Defeat Corruption Anarchy Laziness Sooner Or Later Relaxation Idleness Ideological

Book:The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel

Source: The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel

“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.”

Source: Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy

“But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.”

Knows Dad Chaos Caring Household Mum Chaotic Mum And Dad

Author:Dave Eggers

“I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.”

States Creative Comedy Stress Notes Chaos Confusion Desks Organize Stand Up Comedy

Author:Joy Behar

“Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.”

World Wells Made Whole Together Science Nature Sea Sky Land Elements Mass Chaos Ill Seeds Whole World Covering Countenance Lifeless Land And Sea

Book:Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.”

Found Fun Causes Regret Chaos Having Fun Dull Ignored I Regret

Author:Dominic Cooper

“There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.”

May Would Be Community Middle Chaos Calm Alternatives Civilized Catastrophe Calm Down Meltdowns

Author:Robert Cailliau

“Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.”

People Ifs Should Mean Government Differences Walks India Chaos British Confusion Indian Settling British Government Chaos And Confusion

Author:Stafford Cripps

“No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.”

Way Giving Government Opinion Violence India Threat Chaos British Indian Disorder Representatives Sections British Government

Author:Stafford Cripps

“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Country Economic Consequence Chaos Germany Abandon Collapse Threatening Spain Wrath Greece Triggers Neighbour Euro

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“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.”

Art Ability Written Chaos Patterns Visuals Great Art Great Science

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.”

Life Is Products Army Chaos Experiments Flats Prisoner Regimes Cleaning Neat Bookshelves Sushi Battleground

Author:Ryan Adams

“The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.”

Firsts Feelings Problem Bigs Hours New York First Time Chaos London Clock Hotel Insignificant Small Parts Cab

Author:America Ferrera

“Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.”

Writing Art Plans Media Chaos Entertainment Fats Damage Display Crayon

Author:Louis Eric Barrier

“My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.”

Ifs Bits My Own My Friends Chaos Call Me My Own Life

Author:Christopher Heyerdahl

“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.”

Humans Kind Has Beens Bigs Lasts Cities Steps Conflict Chaos Parks Visuals Contradiction Ancestor Chaotic Big Cities

Author:John Hench

“My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.”

Heart Play Light Loss Grief My Heart Chaos Disaster His Loss Hysterically Funny

Author:Linda Hamilton

“I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.”

Has Beens States Facts Might Born Chaos Might Have Been Literal

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.”

Philosophy Chaos Satisfaction

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.”

World Mean Seems Fall Loss Crazy Chaos Calm Recovery Falling Apart

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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