Changeable Quotes
62 quotes by 61 authors
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be…
— Abraham Lincoln
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After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
— William Shakespeare
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and…
— Ayelet Waldman
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain…
— Ernst Mach
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Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
— Thomas Paine
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Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.
— Tom Hiddleston
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
— Gautama Buddha
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have…
— Christine de Pizan
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of…
— Martin Luther
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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its…
— Franz Kafka
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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to…
— Gautama Buddha
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I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
— Nancy Lancaster
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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
— George Bernard Shaw
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We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent…
— Walter Truett Anderson
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God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do…
— Lord Chesterfield
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