Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right. That’s got to start with all of us.
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Quotes tagged ‘Chaos’
Do you want chaos? Fucking shoot me.
— Christopher Keyser, Cassandra Pressman, Rachel Keller, imdb.com
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting th…
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Ezekiel Stone: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been a long time since my last confession. I was a cop, and good at my job. I was married; I had a good life. Then my wife was raped. We caught the guy who did it, but he got off. So I tracked him down and I killed him. Father Edward Salinas…
— Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Ezekiel Stone, Peter Horton, imdb.com
[on why Ricky should resume his racing career] Susan: It's because it's what you love, Ricky. It is who you were born to be. And here you sit, thinking. Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver. He is a doer. And that's what you need to do. You don't need to think. You need to dri…
Gunfire inside my head.
Lyn: Emma, why is it all so complicated? Emma: Because you make it complicated, Lyn. You're a full-on agent of chaos. Lyn: No, it like follows me. It's a scientific fact: I can't escape drama.
— Evangeline Ordaz, Nancy C. Mejia, Lyn, Melissa Barrera, imdb.com
Every time I light a fire in my life, you find a way to make sure it burns the forest down.
God doesn’t have a plan. There is no plan at all. There’s nothing but chaos out there. Pain… and chaos! People are bad. Malicious, evil. Life is nothing but a spiral of pain. And the world is doomed to be destroyed.
Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
You're on a jet, you're five miles in the air, you're going 500 miles an hour, and you ask someone to bring you another Coke. That is as weird to me as any joke I said last night. I think that's why people identify with me, because there are a billion pieces of information, and there's so much chaos…
If the Marxist teaching were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the universe, it would lead to the disappearance of all order that is conceivable to the human mind. And thus the adoption of such a law would provoke chaos in the structure of the greatest organism that we know, with the r…
Chaos is great! Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling.
The wars were so long ago, nobody even remembers. Darkness and fear ruled until the time of the barons, seven men and women who forged order out of chaos. People flocked to them for protection. That protection became servitude. They banished guns and trained armies of lethal fighters they called Cli…
There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.
I'm a mercenary. I don't play fair. I play what I want. When you deal with a mercenary then all decorum gets tossed out the window. So you go ahead with your cute threats and your watch beeps. Order will not protect you anymore, my friend. I will rain chaos. Even if it hurts me. Because I would rath…
— Kyle Bradstreet, Lucy Teitler, Philip Price, Michael Cristofer, imdb.com
When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see? The strain, the tears, the glimpses of truth hidden underneath. Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder w…
There's no higher power, there's no God. There's just chaos and violence and random, unpredictable evil that comes out of nowhere. It rips you to shreds.
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strike…