Quotes about Chaos
Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.
- Albert Einstein
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
- Aldous Huxley
What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
- Aldous Huxley
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
- Ronald Reagan
the new humanity that is created around Jesus is not a humanity that is always going to be successful and in control of things, but a humanity that can reach out its hand from the depths of chaos, to be touched by the hand of God.
- Rowan Williams
For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.
- Alice Walker
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
- AW Tozer
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
- Oswald Chambers
And on the eighth day God said, "Okay, Murphy, you're in charge!"
- Anonymous