| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f39f5a | On what slender threads do life and fortune hang... ! | life instability | Alexandre Dumas | |
| d99b224 | "You wash your hands, don't you?" Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. "Yes," he said. "All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good." | revulsion instability | Isaac Asimov |