Chaos Quotes
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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
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Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
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I found it was remarkable. It was so evocative. I feel like it captured the urgency and the chaos, but through the silence of it, through the slowness of it. That's what I loved the most about Citizenfour.
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Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.
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You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
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Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.
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Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
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I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
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Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own.
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A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
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This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.
