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Chaos Quotes (page 10)

Sounds awful."No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days."How much will it cost?"Three thousand bucks."So we save money?"Absolutely."When do we leave?"High noon, Christmas Day."They stared at each other for a long time. John Grisham
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing. John Cheever
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place be afforded: it can give form to dark shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born. Lao Tzu
at last you, will say(maybe without speaking)(there are mountains inside your skullgarden and chaos, oceanand hurricane; certaincorners of rooms, portraitsof great-grandmothers, curtainsof a particular shade; your deserts; your privatedinosaurs; the firstwoman)all i need to know: tell meeverythingjust as it wasfrom the beginning. Margaret Atwood
Diane Ackerman quote: "Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world."
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. Diane Ackerman
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. W. Somerset Maugham
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write. Natalie Goldberg
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. Ayn Rand
All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses. Michael Ondaatje
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. Tom Stoppard
So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces. Dante Alighieri
Haruki Murakami quote: "It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail..."
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. Haruki Murakami
John Milton quote: "I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse..."
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down. The dark descent, and up to reascend... John Milton
Werner Herzog quote: "I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony...."
I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony. but hostility, chaos and murder. Werner Herzog

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