Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang Quotes

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

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

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

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.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

We are facing extreme volatility.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

It's a volatile time.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

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.

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

Turmoil stimulates.

It is not new and it is not order.

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

People don't like to see instability.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

Change is rarely comfortable.