Queen Victoria Quotes

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

It's a volatile time.

I live quite an unsettled life.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

We live in a... chaotic world.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

I do not have a very peaceful life.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.