The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against ...every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor ...daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner's job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for... death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Public instability ... gives ... [an] unreasonable advantage ... to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the ...industrious and uninformed mass of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my ...attitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs tha...n on four.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane ...instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »