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Chaos Quotes

If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me – they can, and they will, if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.

– Michelle Obama

On how things could get worse under a Donald Trump second term.

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

– Hugh Mackay

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.

– Hugh Jackman

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.

– Harold Prince

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

– Henry Miller

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.

– Helen Reddy

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.

– Guy Ritchie

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.

– John Lydon

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

– James Thurber

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.

– Ishmael Beah

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

– Henry Adams

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

– John F. Kerry

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.

– Joy Behar

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.

– Jim Morrison

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.

– John Hench

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.

– Clive Barker

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

– Ivanka Trump

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.

– James Lankford

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

– John le Carre

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.

– Alan Huffman

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

– Bob Dylan

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

– Anthony Kiedis

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.

– Bill O’Reilly

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

– Andrew Stanton

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

– Adam McKay

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

– Bill Griffith

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

– Anna Silk

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

– Buddha

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.

– Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

– Auguste Comte

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