“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby…”— Alexander Hamilton, founders.archives.gov
“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s ‘War and Peace’ every day.”— Rufus Wainwright, goodreads.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?”— Laura Dave, amazon.com
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”— Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“The skin she wears may be made of calm / but her bones are made out of chaos.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“Rip it up. Redraw the lines. Chaos is beautiful when order is killing you.”— Clayton Cubitt, claytoncubitt.tumblr.com
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variable…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com