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Tag Name "Unstable" (113)

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People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.
Roy Baumeister
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
Jodi Picoult
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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
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Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
Simone Weil
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Everybody is as unstable as water.
Joseph Heller
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan Sontag
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Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce Meyer
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We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.
Thuli Madonsela
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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
Kenneth Clark
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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
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I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
Lauryn Hill
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I don't know if you know this, Tobias says, but Edward is a little unstable. I'm getting that, I say. That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver, Tobias says. Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew a
Veronica Roth
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Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.
Liz Miller
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
Will Durant
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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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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
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I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.
Mike Birbiglia
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All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.
William Morley Punshon
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I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.
Nicholas Sparks
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
Zong Qinghou
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
Os Guinness
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