Top 100 Quotes About Unstable
#1. We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.
Melanne Verveer
#2. If Terrell Owens is really depressed or mentally unstable, why do the people I love use it as an excuse to talk badly about him?
Matthew Quick
#3. In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Frank Herbert
#4. Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
Janusz Korczak
#5. The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.
Barack Obama
#8. In short, it is more than reasonable that so holy a rule as is the holy Word of God should be kept in fixed languages, since it could not be maintained in this perfect integrity within bastard and unstable languages.
Francis De Sales
#10. To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work
surrounds them with a sensuous life
and cuts them off from the normal sources of living.
Max Lerner
#11. A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely
Jim Jeffords
#12. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
George Ryan
#13. The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury
#14. I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
Charlaine Harris
#15. I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable.
Oladeji Jeremy
#16. It's frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable.
S.A. Wolfe
#17. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
Frank Herbert
#18. The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined ...
Carroll Quigley
#19. All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.
David Bowie
#20. When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually.
Bryant McGill
#21. As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
Anthony Kiedis
#22. If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#23. Love between man and woman is unstable, but the beautiful love that springs from companionship of
children and parents lasts until the end.
R.L. Alsaker
#24. Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.
Irving Fisher
#25. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
William Gibson
#26. The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
Florence Nightingale
#27. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
Georges Bernanos
#28. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?
Billy Graham
#29. If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
Salman Rushdie
#30. Pride is unstable because other people are absentmindedly or intentionally treating the proud man's ego with less reverence than he thinks it deserves.
Timothy Keller
#31. Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.
Bill Veeck
#32. The instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
Simone Weil
#33. The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.
Pierre Reverdy
#34. In the beginning there was Nothing but Nothing is unstable so Something came about.
Exurb1a
#35. Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
Richard Dawkins
#36. By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.
Kate Atkinson
#37. In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.
S.A. Tawks
#38. feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.
Winston Graham
#40. We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
Ben Marcus
#42. There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
Harlan Coben
#43. In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted.
Christina Baker Kline
#44. The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.
Greg Bryk
#45. Perhaps we are able to see only that which we are prepared to see, and in our culture, the cost of insight is an uncertainty that threatens our already unstable sense of order and requires a constant questioning of accepted assumptions. Ralph Ellison (1995a, 31)
Black Hawk Hancock
#46. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.
Jean Webster
#47. Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#48. The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.
Jennifer Gilmore
#49. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
Stephanie Perkins
#51. Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design ... The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#52. Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.
Alison Mosshart
#53. Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Stephen Harper
#54. the only thing that lasts a whole lifetime is life itself, everything else is inevitably precarious, unstable, transient
Jose Saramago
#55. Our planet ... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb ... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
James Lovelock
#56. A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.
Dave Matthews
#57. My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
K. Eric Drexler
#58. If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#59. Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#60. Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
Dan Lipinski
#61. There is no way at all that Diana was mentally unstable. There is nothing wrong with expecting your husband to be faithful and being angry when he isn't. Diana had every reason to believe that Charles and Camilla never stopped seeing each other.
Hasnat Khan
#62. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#63. His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable.
David Ritz
#64. And we were a box of fireworks. A sixty-gallon drum of gasoline. An unstable container of napalm.
One spark, one look, was all it took.
We went up in flames.
Julie Johnson
#65. Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#66. In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.
Seth Godin
#67. I take you for a girl who's eager to grow unstable at the first indication that things can come back to haunt a person, even after she has given them up for dead.
Heidi Julavits
#68. The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen
#69. It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
Alfred North Whitehead
#70. As followers of Jesus, we must look beyond people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. All of these are unstable and inadequate, and if we depend on them, we will fail.
Kenneth D. Boa
#71. I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure.
Heidi Montag
#72. Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!
Rick Riordan
#73. Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
Barack Obama
#74. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.
Minae Mizumura
#75. His son was a weak and mentally unstable young man with sadistic inclinations - which went a long way toward explaining his current flirtation with the British -
Scott Anderson
#76. If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
Zong Qinghou
#77. Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actually."
"Who? I want a name."
"Jamie Roth."
"The Ebola kid? I heard he's a little unstable."
"That was one incident.
Michelle Hodkin
#78. The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.
David Miliband
#79. I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
James Taylor
#80. Humans - far from being a dominant species, were regarded as one of the most unstable and untrustworthy, being at the mercy of what most of the Unity's people regarded as a dangerously prevalent sex drive.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#81. Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Charles Darwin
#82. Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
Don Tapscott
#83. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. (As Plato There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Rebecca Goldstein
#85. Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.
Hyman Minsky
#86. The first time someone I loved left me behind ... I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
Jodi Picoult
#87. The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.
Frank Wilczek
#88. Why are you asking me now?" I asked. "Why didn't you ask me before?"
"You seemed a little ... unstable," Mayson said. "Now you seem to be more like yourself ... which is still ... rather unstable.
L.D. Davis
#89. Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.
Edward Dahlberg
#90. What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.
Allegra Huston
#91. Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.
Jennifer Touma
#92. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#93. Conveying information that a method is stable or unstable is one thing; attempting to control how others use it is quite another.
Sandi Metz
#94. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.
Daniel H. Pink
#95. The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain's performance envelope.
John Medina
#97. Men are psychologically unstable, too prone to emotions; not to be relied upon in moments of crisis.' 'That's
Andrzej Sapkowski
#98. Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.
Erin Willett
#99. Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
Lev Grossman
#100. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
Matthew Pearl
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