Instability Quotes

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional… — Isaac Asimov
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of… — Dorianne Laux
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. — Anais Nin
Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going… — Suzanne Collins
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your… — Charles Baxter
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our… — Hermann Hesse
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means… — Erich Fromm
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this… — Delphine de Vigan
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life.… — Fritjof Capra
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle… — Natasha Lyonne
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa. — Anthony Fauci
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability. — Jonas Gahr Store
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United… — Eskinder Nega

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