Chaos

I don't only write about English literature, I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren't working.

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality, for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun.

Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you, it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

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.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared for the unthinkable. Supplies and a plan will significantly reduce panic and chaos in the event of an emergency.

When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see, our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect, you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free, we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos, and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Democracy is fatal for the arts, it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.