Quotes About Unstable

#1. Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows

Joseph Patrick Pascale

#2. This is a psychofield, a thoughtspace, essentially unstable. While most people conceptualise thinking as this straightforward linear thing, I see ideas spreading out into alternatives before one is selected. In this place every notion can potentially become reality.

Tade Thompson

#3. In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Adair Turner

#4. As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Jamie Cullum

#5. If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

Liam Fox

#6. America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

George W. Bush

#7. While growth may be unsustainable, de-growth is unstable.' Today's economic model cannot continue indefinitely. We live on a small planet. The population and the economy are growing, but the planet is not growing.

Anders Wijkman

#8. The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Dan Lipinski

#9. The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Roy Baumeister

#11. What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.

Ruth Ozeki

#12. Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.

David Gemmell

#13. A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

Tom Burke

#14. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

Tacitus

#16. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

Ellen G. White

#18. Harold knew things. It was good that he did, but it was also rather spooky, as if they had a fifth-rate god traveling with them - more or less omniscient, but emotionally unstable and likely to fragment at any time.

Stephen King

#19. When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

Park Chan-wook

#20. An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

#21. Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

Beny Steinmetz

#22. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca The Younger

#23. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

Sol Luckman

#24. It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Anthony Storr

#25. Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

William Morley Punshon

#27. Tiny but determined, I navigated the confusing and unstable path of being what you are while knowing that it's more than people want to see. Back

Hope Jahren

#28. Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Will Durant

#29. Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

Seneca The Younger

#30. Life without God is extremely unstable and unpredictable.

Sunday Adelaja

#31. God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Os Guinness

#32. The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

Charles Koch

#33. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

Kafka, Franz

#34. I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Moonshine Noire

#35. The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

G. Stanley Hall

#36. Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Sean Covey

#37. Bertha kept things interesting, always shaky and a little unstable

Bambi Sparkles

#38. political democracies that do not democratize their economic systems are inherently unstable.

Thomas Piketty

#39. Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

Newt Gingrich

#40. For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

Christina Aguilera

#41. In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

Alan Moore

#42. If you are uncertain or in confusion don't take any decisions. If you feel you can do something just feel it and do it.
you cannot justify your actions that you do for others when you are unstable.
People will feel for something all the time and you cannot make them happy anyway...

Giridhar Alwar

#43. The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#44. When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that the world is unstable and wonders whether he is supposed to walk on his hind legs and smoke cigars.

Corey Ford

#45. Because, sir, in case you don't know it, words move, they change from one day to the next, they are as unstable as shadows, are themselves shadows, which both are and have ceased to be, soap bubbles, shells in which one can barely hear a whisper, mere tree stumps.

Jose Saramago

#46. Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It's more unstable than uranium.

Rick Yancey

#47. When we take all thoughts captive and trust God with our well being, fear departs. Our faith in His power will remove our insecurities, wobbly uncertainty, and unstable nervousness.

Cheryl Zelenka

#48. There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.

Jennifer Beals

#49. A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Daniel Johns

#50. Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

Dan Miller

#51. In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Paul Gillmor

#52. Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

Frances Beinecke

#53. You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.

Kemi Sogunle

#54. We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#55. The air was heavy with unstable chemicals, mold, and the earthy stench of hashish. The fat of candles burned, great tears of wax spilling onto the sidewalk.

Patti Smith

#56. One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed ...

Edgar Dale

#57. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

George Carlin

#58. [Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.

John Barth

#59. I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out.
"You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.

Richelle Mead

#60. I remember a rainbow spectrum of men's wing tips parked in rows, triple-A narrow, the leather dyed snake green, lemon yellow, and unstable shades of vermilion and Ditto-ink blue. All of humanity dresses in uniforms of one sort or another, and these shoes were for pimps.

Rachel Kushner

#61. I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

Lauryn Hill

#62. The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#63. Nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#64. Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

Craig Ferguson

#65. I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

Nicholas Sparks

#66. Over the last several days, I'd done a fair amount of practiced focusing on my present state of "lesness" - homelessness, joblessness and relationshiplessness. Less was not more. Less was an unstable, uncomfortable place to be.

Penny Reid

#67. He hurled another vast pot of unstable thaumaturgic compound at the militia. It fell short, but burst with such violence that it splashed onto and over the shields, mixing with the distillate and sending two officers screaming to the floor as their skin became parchment and their blood ink.

China Mieville

#68. Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

Kenneth Clark

#69. For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.

Gianrico Carofiglio

#70. I can choose to be unstable.

Elizabeth Swados

#71. I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Salman Rushdie

#72. FUCK. This is not good. I'm allergic to whiskey. I think maybe I should explain this to her, and request a different alcohol. Then I remember that I am awesome. Even fighting through anaphylactic shock, I can STILL bury this emotionally unstable, bulimic undergrad.

Tucker Max

#73. And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#74. The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.

Gume Laurel III

#75. Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

J.D. Robb

#76. Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Pope Julius II

#77. I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Josh Lucas

#78. They probably have me up on a poster by now. Warning: this girl is emotionally unstable. Do not allow near hot beverages.

Abby McDonald

#79. Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall

Kelly Barnhill

#80. Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

Geoff Nicholson

#81. Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.

Kealan Patrick Burke

#82. Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that.

Martin O'Malley

#83. Compassion is by nature gentle, peaceful, and soft, but it is very powerful. It is those who easily lose their patience who are insecure and unstable. Thus, to me, the arousal of anger is a direct sign of weakness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#84. Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#85. Identity apart from God is inherently unstable.

Timothy J. Keller

#86. High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

Carlo Rubbia

#87. Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable.

Unknown

#88. Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

C.D. Wright

#89. As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

#90. To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#91. Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her - the opportunity, the courage.

Gustave Flaubert

#92. One little joke involving hemorrhagic fever and they brand you 'unstable

Michelle Hodkin

#93. It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

Franz Pick

#94. There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

Zicheng Hong

#95. Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.
- Foaly

Eoin Colfer

#96. I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

George Soros

#97. We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

Megan Linski

#98. People think I'm unstable, but I tell you, Rose is ten times worse. Of course, that makes it harder for people to fuck with you, so I'm all for it.
- Christian Ozera to Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Acdemy)

Richelle Mead

#99. Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

Bhartrhari

#100. You know what she said? She says nobody gets a nervous breakdown just from the war and all. She says you probably were unstable like, your whole goddam life.

J.D. Salinger