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.
Herodotus
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An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
Saint Jerome
Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.
John Doolittle
They just feel that we discharged someone in an unstable condition. And we dispute that because this was an ER doctor decision.
Lynn Olson
Some German machinery firms are highly dependent on doing business with Iran, so sanctions would hit them very hard. We are expecting a steep decline in trade for this year already. Several companies are slowly pulling out because of the unstable situation in Iran. It's simply too risky for them.
Jochen Clausnitzer
It's not worth risking a rescuer's life if the ground is unstable... we believe they're dead.
Julio Cesar
There's so much pressure to reduce bed use. Folks are being discharged in unstable conditions. My concern is that we're putting too much attention on hospital-bed utilization and having these sorts of unintended consequences.
Dr. Marvin Swartz
The most effective means for trunk strengthening should involve back or abdominal exercises with unstable bases.
David Behm
The air is so unstable, it can trigger these things. The conditions are just very favorable for these types of situations.
Kevin Kodama
Germany faces difficult times because the formation of a new government will be tough. Whatever emerges will be comparatively unstable.
Thomas Straubhaar
[Hardaway] sprained it and tried to play through it. The tissue stretched and basically he runs the chance of having a long-term detriment. It's our recommendation because of how unstable the thumb is to have it repaired now before it gets so severe that he ends up having arthritis or career-threatening injuries.
Thomas Carter
Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.
Kabbalah
We're trying to fund an entire city off an unstable revenue source.
Scott Somers
We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.
John Adshead
It's very difficult for the Iraqi government to govern because the security situation is still very unstable. Among the most pressing problems, the most pressing is to try to construct a military and security bureaucracy that is not essentially tainted by militias or militia loyalties.
Michael Hudson
We are the only species that follows unstable pack leaders.
Cesar Millan
Many things are changing and have been changing. Up to this point, many of the changes have not been kind to the health-care system. That's why there have been so many bankruptcies and closures. Such an unstable system is not good for public health.
David Sandman
All these [results] suggest unstable days ahead in the Republican caucus.
Bill Mcinturff
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
Sean Covey
It's good news for the public because (Park East) is a good, solid surface to park on instead of something unstable.
Debbie Norton
They're unstable to begin with, they have weak controls, there's an argument and they get set off.
Louis Schlesinger
The Nasdaq is very unstable and we are tagging along with it. Everyone had hoped that the market would do well because of the rate cut and yesterday's fall.
Bruno Otero
By taking my hand from a stable surface and placing it on an unstable one [the soccer ball], I'm working different muscles in my arm than I do with a regular push-up. And it really works my core. You need to keep your abdominals tight to be able to hold this position.
Brandi Chastain
Pakistan has never been so unstable, and the federation has never been under greater political strain.
Raza Rabbani
With this group being so unstable, we have to just concentrate on making the playoffs. We can win three in a row and we can take it from there. We have the talent to do so.
Chuck Mcbreen
So just when Europe needs to be doing more than ever to fight crime and terrorism in an unstable world, we would be proposing deep, deep cuts in the things that really matter.
Chris Davies
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Titus Maccius Plautus
The truck hit the car in the driver's side door. (She was) extricated from the car and taken to Health Sciences Centre in unstable condition.
Bruce Meyers
Most can't afford their medication and have reverted back to exhibiting mentally unstable tendencies.
Andrew Stuart
It may not be possible to conduct these kinds of highly charged cases in what is a very fragile and unstable environment where there is still armed conflict.
Richard Dicker
Those rocks are unstable, people shouldn't be out there. Mavericks is a great event, but it's not a spectator event.
Clayton Jolley
Fuel prices have become particularly unstable in the past few weeks. Worries about the security of crude oil supplies are pushing prices up while growing domestic inventories of domestic crude oil and refined products are pushing prices down.
Rolayne Fairclough
Americans, including the president of the U.S., have realized continued dependence on oil, particularly imported oil from unstable regions of the world, is dangerous.
Matt Hartwig
It was the most stressful day of my life. It was absolutely terrible knowing that I might have to leave because my dad's condition was unstable and my mother was looking after everything herself.
Cheryl Everall
Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.
Mike Gravel
The U.S. says 'we can't do that but don't worry about it, look at our charts for the next 20 years, we're running out of gas, we're running out of oil, we're overly dependent on unstable countries, we want your stuff. And the Russians say, 'Ok, we'll go to China.
Andrew Somers
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke
I thought the Middle Eastern part [of President Bush's State of the Union speech] was grossly exaggerated, given the percentage they supply. It's hard to pick out one part of the world as being more unstable than another part, especially if you're projecting 20, 25 years out.
Frank Verrastro
Of course, there are some problems that need attention. Most importantly, the basis for increasing domestic demand is unstable, the level of difficulty for adjusting the economic structure is increasing and the world economy is slowing.
Qiu Xiaohua
The biggest myth in Florida is [that] this is about protecting people who use legitimate self-defense. This law ... sends a message to people who are potentially unstable and have an itchy trigger finger that as long as they can make a reasonable case they were in fear, they can use deadly force against somebody.
Peter Hamm
What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.
Alejandro Amenabar
When you take away sleep, the brain becomes unstable. You can't pay attention, you have trouble sustaining activities over time. Some people show it right away, while other people can go quite a while without showing it.
David Dinges
Right now we are not mentioning anything heavy, subject to change. Essentially the atmosphere is very unstable. We have a trough west of our area that's drawing all of this unstable, moist tropical air.
Norman Hui
It adds a different component, ... It's an unstable but controlled environment, which is good for your muscles.
Stephen Hill
When you're looking for a furniture device, go low. Buy something that's typically 30 inches or less. And before you buy the piece or TV, whether it's a TV stand or a bookcase or a dresser, make sure that when you pull the drawers out, or when you open the doors, or push on the shelves, it isn't wobbly or unstable.
John Kupsch
These systems make the air to the east and southeast of the low unstable, creating a greater chance of heavy rain showers.
Jim Weyman
Waves constantly breaking on the structure start to erode it and make it become unstable. But I don't think that was a major factor in the canals. You just don't have the (open area) to allow wave growth to occur.
Greg Stone
Cigarette taxes are an unstable source of revenue.
Bill Phelps
During the practice rounds during the day, we weren't right. They were unstable. I couldn't be effective with me picking up my fouls earlier. I take a lot of the loss on me as a senior. I felt that I didn't do well on my part.
Donisha Duruisseau
What we are trying to do is observe [planets] eclipsing their stars. Kepler will be put into space to avoid our unstable atmosphere.
Dimitar Sasselov
Any agreement that is unstable is one that is undesirable from the point of view of Europe.
Thane Gustafson
Overall the security situation in Mazar remains somewhat unstable. As of this morning, we heard reports that along with occasional looting there is also 'punitive action' that is being carried out. We have also heard that fighting is continuing in and around the city.
Stephanie Bunker
For any of us, think about how unstable your life is if you don't have a place to live. You can't develop effective treatment for the chronically homeless unless they are stable in housing first. You know you have a broken system if you are spending large amounts of money on county health workers and nurses looking under bridges to treat them.
Alonzo Plough
It's still slightly unstable. It does create a potential for isolated and heavy showers, but anything that would occur is expected to be brief.
Derek Wroe
When you are unstable, you'll use 40 to 50 percent of the muscle fibers to lift the weight and the rest to stabilize yourself.
David Behm
They are very unstable in salt water. They do pose a threat to the divers, any swimmers, any boaters in the area.
Jim Amormino
The assistant college coaching life was a very unstable business. A boss might change, or you might be riding someone's coat tails. Opportunities like this one don't come along often, so I took the job.
Scott Edwards
When you encounter unstable soil, you usually get a bulldozer to cut down until you get to solid ground. No matter how far down we got, the soil was still unstable. We had to bring in two or three feet of fill to make the site stable.
Stan Franczek
Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal.
George Archibald
There are a lot of guns and weapons in Gaza. But it has the capability of being much more unstable.
Scott Lasensky
Clearly, the extreme events that we're now experiencing in California and Florida, and in Georgia and Alabama, and the ice storms in Maine and New Hampshire, are going to have an impact on our understanding that our climate system is becoming unstable.
Paul Epstein
As fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely.
James Jeffords
It's a real mixed bag, enhanced a lot by the fact that the air is so cold and unstable.
Dan Keirns
The problem is, it's such an unstable situation over there. Their future is in jeopardy.
Lisa Miller
It is an early stage area. Which makes it fantastically exciting and fantastically unstable. In areas that change this quickly, it doesn't pay for you to buy today's winners and sit for five years.
Nigel Dutson
We are concerned because such incidents happen only in a very unstable environment, ... And if you don't do something about it very quickly, Bangladesh will become known more and more as a place of terrorism and violence.
Praful Patel
With any elected official, you get threats from unstable people. I'm not aware of any threats directly related to his position on immigration.
Janelle Erickson
Parents play a big role and they don't want their child to come into an unstable situation and unstable program.
Jarvis Herring
If Rahman is released or found to be mentally unstable or if this is one-time deal making, what we have is not universal freedom of conscience, but government benevolence. It peaks and valleys depending on how winds are blowing.
Robert Seiple
I think a spirit of independence is really important, and not just for a woman. I'm always interested in characters - not just as an actress, but as a spectator, too - who have their own way of being, of living, even if it's not the best way, or even if it's unstable or sometimes mean.
Virginie Ledoyen
They are unstable and unpredictable. They could fall away at any time.
Brayton Willis
He was an unstable person the last year or two years. She realized he wasn't the person for her.
Marsha Jones
The soil was unstable. We had to get it corrected. It cost us a lot of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Stan Franczek
Their belief is the patient was discharged in an unstable condition; based upon that they provided us with the notice yesterday (Tues.) that they were going to terminate the involvement in the Medicare program and eligibility for that.
John Webber
Jockeying in the run-up to Nigeria's presidential elections and swelling violence in the unstable Niger Delta threaten the country's unity and could result in the break-up of the ruling party, damage regional stability and roil global oil markets.
Eurasia Group
I'm glad to get this behind me. What are they going to do with a 55-year-old man that's baldheaded, broke down, mentally unstable? What more can you do to me? I've lived a good life.
Ernest Mcqueen
[It is] very difficult, very hard, very unpredictable, very unstable but we don't have a choice... We try to do our best. There are too many men with guns in Somalia but that's the environment in which these vulnerable people find themselves.
Zlatan Milisic
The conditions for a free float do not exist at present. The global economy is not balanced, there are still many unstable factors and there will be a lot of adjustments in future.
Zhou Xiaochuan
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