Top 319 Unstable Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

A country without discipline would be chaotic and unstable.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

We have found that fusions of GFP with the RING finger domains of certain E3 ubiquitin ligases creates an unstable GFP. We have used unstable GFP to learn how disruption of microtubules in the touch receptor neurons causes a generalized reduction in protein levels in the cells.

[Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

I can choose to be unstable.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

I work with the president and speak with him multiple times a week. This is a man, he didn't become the president by accident. And as much as everyone wants to talk about stability, was he unstable when he passed the tax reform? Was he unstable when we finally hit back at Syria and said no more chemical weapons?

We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that.

The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable living. Often they're unable to say what their occupation is, because what they're doing now might be quite different from what they were doing three months ago.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put a thin piece of plastic down under a litter box and the cat walks on it and starts to slip, they don't like that. Any animal doesn't like an unstable floor.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Everybody is as unstable as water.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.