For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
The first time someone I loved left me behind. . . I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past
I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
Everybody is as unstable as water.
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable. ' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.
Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses
In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.
We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
You know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us. I'm sure everybody will say it's true even the girls (laughter). No? No, you don't think? I mean, it's just about hormones and all this stuff. We don't have all these bad things, so we are physically in a good shape every time, and you are not. That's it.
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.
In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.