Stability Quotes

541 quotes by 441 authors

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they wonâ€™t enter into a story. They have… — Donald Miller
â€Ž"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've… — Aldous Huxley
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be… — Samuel R. Delany
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. — Aldous Huxley
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless… — Edith Wharton
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that… — Sherry Argov
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own… — Thomas Merton
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright
I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms… — Veronica Roth
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
As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and… — Maurice Blanchot
If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is… — Marianne Williamson
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his… — Rudolf Arnheim
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. — Mark Twain
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the… — James Madison
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is… — Pearl S. Buck
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people. — John Hume
It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself… — Paul Wolfowitz

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