Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

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

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

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.

The world is a very abnormal place.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

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

Stability is not the way of the world.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

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

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

We're not yet in a multipolar world. We are in a chaotic world.... We live in a world where the dangers are real for all of us.

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.