Top 100 In Chaos Quotes
#2. Each man has many fates. Each choice produces a different path. Each path another choice. So be it. When a man has found his way through the maze of many lifetimes he will find harmony. Or he will remain in chaos lost in the maze. His choice alone determines." Orient
Frank Lauria
#3. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
#4. Humans find unity in chaos, purpose in war, honor in battle. It is their curse that they cannot flourish without conflict.
Lori M. Lee
#5. These descendants divined myths in what was really history, for true memories were forgotten in chaos as vast arrays of daivi astras used in the Great War ravaged the land. That war destroyed almost everything. It took centuries for India to regain its old cultural vigour and intellectual depth.
Amish Tripathi
#6. There is rhythm in chaos - even within the cacophony of the mind.
Shaun M. Thomas
#7. A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.
Walter De La Mare
#8. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters
Kevin DeYoung
#9. In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
Grace Hartigan
#10. I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#11. In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
Peter J. Carroll
#12. They're around back," she calls down when Julie and I get out. "Planning their strategy." "Good for them," I say, confident that no strategy that isn't grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a man like me.
Richard Russo
#13. It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Manly Hall
#14. 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.
Billy Idol
#15. There are people who like to work in chaos, and some people work better under that, and create that sort of chaos, but that makes a set not necessarily very fun. I like to work on sets that don't have that.
George Clooney
#16. Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos
Dennis Foon
#17. I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.
Elizabeth Bowen
#19. Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
Marianne Williamson
#20. A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
Sophia Amoruso
#21. You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.
Mac O'Grady
#22. I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.
Gloria Feldt
#23. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.
Louise Penny
#24. Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.
Russell Kirk
#25. I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the storm; if I'm still and listen and don't engage, maybe the chaos will subside.
Mike Colter
#26. To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.
David Hewson
#27. Our region is going to be in chaos for a long time, ... The media's not playing it up to make it seem worse than it is. The reality is that it's as bad or worse than what you're seeing on TV. It's going to take a lot of help from a lot of people to get everybody back to living a normal life again.
David Toms
#28. Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.
Kenneth Grant
#29. In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?
Stephen Hawking
#30. We were in chaos and world were watching us while we were killing each other like gladiators in arena.
M.F. Moonzajer
#32. I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
Oscar Levant
#33. No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough.
Sarah Dunant
#34. Not sure there's been a single day of my life when everything was totally fine. And now? The best I can say is once in a while I'm not somersaulting in chaos.
Ellen Hopkins
#35. Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
Immanuel Kant
#36. Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
Elisabeth Elliot
#37. I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.
Robert Vaughn
#41. Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little downy fellas who are gonna meet a hungry weasel or vicious farm dog before nightfall, their world stands in chaos, and not of their own doing.
Allan Dare Pearce
#42. Broken people find beauty in chaos. It's a perk, and it's landed you me so be grateful of all my brokenness.
R.J. Lewis
#44. Now that I've said this, I can't help but say more, can't help but speak the words that have been gathering in my head like dark clouds before the storm, building pressure and growing, and rolling over themselves in chaos.
Carrie Ryan
#45. I chose the light amidst the lurking darkness. I chose calmness and stillness among a crowd bathing in chaos. I chose happiness over screaming negativity around and I chose to be ME over the temptation of being like somebody else.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#46. Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
Robert Hayden
#47. Chaos lost in chaos. Liberty in being a small part of a larger madness. When you weren't seen, you weren't judged. There was a desirable freedom in that.
Penelope Douglas
#48. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
John Green
#49. Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.
Abdul Mueed
#50. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.
Caroline Myss
#51. Failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware
Stephen E. Ambrose
#52. There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.
Bernard Cornwell
#54. But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
Madeleine L'Engle
#55. He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
Joseph Heller
#56. I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
Gabrielle Union
#57. 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.
Ryan Adams
#58. I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
Sam Shepard
#59. The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
Wallace Stevens
#60. IN CHAOS THEORY, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IS THE SENSITIVE DEPENDENCY ON INITIAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH A SMALL CHANGE AT ONE PLACE IN A DETERMINISTIC NONLINEAR SYSTEM CAN RESULT IN LARGE DIFFERENCES IN A LATER STATE.
Teresa Mummert
#61. People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.
Allan Savory
#62. Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites - but often thwarts - our investigation and our understanding.
Dean Koontz
#63. With the global economy in chaos and the environment of the planet at risk, with war raging and suffering escalating, it is time for each of us in our own lives to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around.
Pema Chodron
#64. Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.
Tim Downs
#65. The Empire is in chaos. As the old order crumbles, the fledgling New Republic seeks a swift end to the galactic conflict. Many Imperial leaders have fled from their posts, hoping to escape justice in the farthest corners of known space.
Chuck Wendig
#66. Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.
Geralin Thomas
#67. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
Grace Hartigan
#68. An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#69. 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.
Rollo May
#70. Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.
Robert M. Drake
#71. Being a football fan entitles us to a temporary, recurring retreat, a short holiday from real existence. Our lives can be in chaos and nothing seem fixed. Nothing except how we feel on a Saturday at 3pm, when we are elevated into blissful and infuriating distraction. What a privilege that is.
Daniel Gray
#73. We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
Ishmael Beah
#75. I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.
Lady Gaga
#76. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
#77. Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.
Marty Rubin
#78. We all fall on hard times," he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. "It's just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.
Kristen Ashley
#79. Life is full of many unpredictable changes ... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities ... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
Oprah Winfrey
#80. We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos. We
Alan W. Watts
#81. Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us
Sapan Saxena
#82. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.
Gina Greenlee
#83. I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
George Harrison
#84. And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage.'
Anne Lamott
#85. 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.
Christopher Heyerdahl
#86. I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison
#87. In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
Rick Perlstein
#88. There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
Gottfried Leibniz
#89. If you think about it, we are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away.
Melanie Iglesias
#90. You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
Rick Riordan
#92. Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
Dan Brown
#94. 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?
Federico Fellini
#95. I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
Brandon Boyd
#96. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
Bill O'Reilly
#97. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
Wesley Morris
#98. Natural disasters are revelatory. The manner in which a society interprets a catastrophe and responds to the chaos exposes many of the accepted truths, prejudices, hopes, and fears of a culture. - Nicholas Shrady, The Last Day
Steve Olson
#99. 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.
James Zogby
#100. 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.
William Irwin Thompson
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