stability quotes

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.