A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
-Madeleine L'Engle
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human
brotherhood or it is a chaos.
-Max Lerner
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites
chaos.
-Francis Ford Coppola
Art is the triumph over chaos.
-John Cheever
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition,
misinformation, and prejudice.
-Gore Vidal
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and
order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there
was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape
that was previously flat.
-Molly Haskell
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle
becomes chaos.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order
is.
-Steve Martin
Chaos is a friend of mine.
-Bob Dylan
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
-George
Santayana
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It
always defeats order, because it is better organized.
-Terry
Pratchett
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.
-Emile
Cioran
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
-Henry Miller
Chaos is the worst kind of oppression because there is nothing to resist.
-Bruce
Sterling
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
-Henry Adams
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
-Will
Durant
Destroy time, and chaos may be ordered.
-Norman Mailer
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is
chaos.
-Cullen Hightower
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-Alan Dean Foster
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
-James Thurber
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than
destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. I
believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't
changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must
still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.
-Kenneth
Clark
I cannot believe that there is any being in this universe who has
created a human soul for eternal pain. I would rather that every god
would destroy himself; I would rather that we all should go to eternal
chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should
suffer eternal agony.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding
visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in
all this noise?
-Frederico Fellini
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the
rich state of equilibrium that existed 10,000 years ago. If insects were
to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
-Edward O.
Wilson
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.
-Felix Frankfurter
In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to
have personal chaos.
-Thomas Armstrong
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-Carl
Jung
In the Beginning, the Big Bang emitted Chaos; and the Chaos was without
form, and void, for it was homogeneous and isotropic. And the
Singularity moved upon the face of the Chaos and emitted light; and the
Universe was no longer homogeneous, for the light was divided from the
darkness. And there came forth firmaments and dry land and seas and
stars and moons; and the worlds brought forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself. It is quite literally true that if you can believe that, you
can believe anything; more, you must believe anything. To exclude
anything you must make an act of faith.
-Jerry Pournelle
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out
of void, but out of chaos.
-Mary Shelley
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely
abundant chaos.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind
of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of
undifferentiated weirdness.
-Jerry Garcia
Let chaos reign, then rein chaos.
-Andrew Grove
Life is chaos. It has none of the symmetries and patterning of the novel.
-Martin
Amis
Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.
-John
Keats
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he
does so by making a garden and building a wall.
-Robert Frost
Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic
reality of chaos.
-William Gaddis
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against
hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.
-George C. Marshall
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living
phenomena.
-Wilhelm Reich
Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
-Tom
Stoppard
The chaos lies all within.
-V.S. Naipaul
The guiding ideological principles of most American newsrooms are
entropy, chaos, procrastination and lunch.
-Renee Loth
The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to
chaos.
-Frank Herbert
The primary function of management is to create the chaos that only
management can sort out.
-Theodore Dalrymple
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a
chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble
earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the
glory and the shame of the universe.
-Blaise Pascal
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
-Kerry
Thornley
When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession
of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming
events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end,
leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves
above history.
-Karl Jaspers
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