Stability Quotes

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

I am rooted, but I flow.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are interested in building up their countries rather than destroying them, and doing so in a way that is sustainable and doesn't put a constant burden on the amazing men and women that we've got in uniform.