Mutability Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter,… — Charles Spurgeon
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human… — Washington Irving
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a… — Albert Einstein
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its… — M. Scott Peck
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some… — Samuel Johnson
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just… — Susan Sontag
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but… — Boethius
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord. — Vinoba Bhave
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier
We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated… — Frederick Lenz
Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it… — Simon Bolivar
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify… — Susan Sontag
Pleasure to me is wonderâ€”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… — Donna Tartt
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a… — Tony Kushner

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