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I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic. -- Lauryn Hill
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable. -- Josh Lucas
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. -- Herodotus
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. -- Anthony Kiedis
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Plautus
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. -- Dan Lipinski
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. -- Stephen Harper
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. -- William J. Clinton
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. -- LeBron James
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. -- John von Neumann
I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated. -- Mike Birbiglia
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. -- Paul Gillmor
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries. -- Dan Lipinski
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. -- John Drinkwater
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. -- James Taylor
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. -- George Saintsbury
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day. -- J. D. Hayworth
A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life. -- Totaram Sanadhya
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. -- Ram Dass
Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life. -- Joyce Meyer
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable. -- Zong Qinghou
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. -- Camille Paglia
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. -- Joyce Meyer
I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable. -- Pete Wentz
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. -- K. Eric Drexler
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. -- Ellen G. White
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks. -- Janet Yellen
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium. -- George Soros
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad. -- Park Chan-wook
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. -- Cesar Millan
I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it. -- George Soros
We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership. -- Jerrold Nadler
In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions. -- Daniel H. Pink
The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster. -- David Miliband
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not. -- Joyce Meyer
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term. -- Sanjay Dutt
Zitkala-Å a trod the unstable... -- Cathy Davidson
Everybody is as unstable as water. -- Joseph Heller
I can choose to be unstable. -- Elizabeth Swados
Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses -- Pope Julius II
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free. -- Diogenes Laertius
It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion. -- Franz Pick
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as capitalism... -- Richard D. Wolff
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. -- Roy Baumeister
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. -- Kenneth Clark
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. -- Seneca the Younger
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. -- Seneca the Younger
Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders. -- Cesar Millan
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. -- Michel de Montaigne
The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable. -- Pierre Reverdy
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages. -- Geoff Nicholson
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. -- Friedrich Schiller
In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice. -- James Poniewozik
Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys. -- Stephanie Perkins
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. -- Janusz Korczak
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world. -- James E. Faust
Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly -- Eoin Colfer
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation. -- Tacitus
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. -- Susan Sontag
When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually. -- Bryant McGill
The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power. -- Greg Bryk
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. -- Will Durant
We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated. -- Adel al-Jubeir
Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea. -- Venerable Bede
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable. -- Frank Wilczek
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise. -- Ben Marcus
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. -- Os Guinness
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. -- Daniel Quinn
[Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on. -- Donald Trump
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ? -- Billy Graham
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. -- Isaac Asimov
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. -- Richard Dawkins
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation. -- Sean Covey
....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me. -- Thuli Madonsela
Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this. -- Mooji
Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. -- Dalai Lama
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable. -- Salman Rushdie
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. -- John Quincy Adams
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors. -- Cesar Millan
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate -- Tom Burke
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns. -- Barack Obama
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable -- Daniel Johns
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers. -- Newt Gingrich
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action. -- Dan Miller
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable. -- Don Tapscott
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others. -- Charlaine Harris
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. -- David Bowie
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape. -- Christina Aguilera
The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united. -- Barack Obama
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. -- George Carlin
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises. -- Barry Eichengreen
Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits. -- Hyman Minsky
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we`re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back. -- Jeb Bush
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. -- Michel de Montaigne
In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. -- Salman Rushdie
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times. -- Harold MacMillan
Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times. -- Jennifer Touma
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely -- Jim Jeffords
Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion. -- Nora Roberts
Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden. -- Craig Ferguson
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. -- William Gibson
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. -- Edward Dahlberg
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force. -- Mary Wollstonecraft

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