Unstable Situation Quotes

Governing Yemen is like riding a lion: once you get on you cannot get off.

42% of today’s army enlistees are ethnic or racial minorities. In the general population in the 18 to 24 year old age cohort, nearly 50% of the people…have had some exposure to college education. In that same age cohort in the U.S. military today…the percentage of people who’ve had some kind of exposure to college education is 6.5%. So the vast majority of our society…has, in effect, hired some of the least disadvantaged of their fellow citizens to conduct some of our most dangerous business. I think that is an unstable situation, and one that does threaten, in the long run, the health of our democracy.

I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

Instability is never a good idea.

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.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

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

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn't-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was... keep moving.

This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.

One day you are on the top, the other day you're on the bottom. That's how it works.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

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.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.