Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Quotes

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

When the team is running away, I prefer to be on the seat with my hands on the lines rather than in front of the runaway.

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Turmoil stimulates.

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

Cairo became an empty desert, and there was no one to be seen in the streets. A man could go from the Zuwayla Gate to the Bab al-Nasr without encountering another soul. Wailing could be heard on all sides, and you did not pass a house without being assailed by shrieks. Corpses lay piled along the public way, burial trains jostled one another, and the dead were carried to the graves amidst commotion.

… a major threat to regional stability.

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.

The best picture I can give of the French Nation, is that of Cattle before a Thunder Storm.

War is unsettling.

Terror is the order of the day.

The most formidable weapon in the hands of slave-insurgents is always this blind panic they create, and the wild exaggerations which follow. The worst being possible, everyone takes the worst for granted.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.