Destabilizing Quotes

#1. I see hope creeping in, destabilizing old power structures. I feel it in the ground under my feet. I hear it in the stories of the people of God living right now. We're whispering to each other, eyes alight, "Aslan is on the move." Can't you feel that? The kingdom is breathing among us already.

Sarah Bessey

#2. My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.

Mitt Romney

#3. It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

William J. Clinton

#4. We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

Fatos Nano

#5. I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

Robert M. Gates

#6. The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

George Soros

#7. What - what we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for al-Qaida. What we can do is make sure that - it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has - nuclear weapons. The key is ... we've got to have a clear objective.

Barack Obama

#8. I'm very concerned about the nuclear weapons development for Iran and the destabilizing influence it has and they have in that part of the world. And I strongly endorse continued pressure, diplomatically, financially, economically.

Michael Mullen

#9. The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

Richard Armitage

#10. Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

George Packer

#11. There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Alexander Cockburn

#12. One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Bruce Sterling

#13. We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.

Eric Schneiderman

#14. Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#15. But I cannot pretend, as much as sometimes I would like to, that I have not throughout my life experienced the redeeming, destabilizing love of a surprising God.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#16. We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

Oliver Stone

#17. I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Alan Greenspan

#18. Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Deborah Eisenberg

#19. Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#20. I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

Heidi Julavits

#21. And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

James Chanos

#22. People are far more interested in what works than what's true.

Andy Stanley

#23. To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

Nick Cave

#24. New things are always better than old things.

Andy Warhol

#25. If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#26. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Richard Paul Evans

#27. New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.

Jen Pollock Michel

#28. Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. You're very quiet," she murmured.
"That's because I'm the big bad wolf," he growled playfully.

Savannah Stuart

#30. How could one person, who'd proven to be so inherently bad for me, so wrong, still be so utterly necessary for my happiness?
It wasn't fair.

R.K. Lilley

#31. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Blaise Pascal