Affair Quote by William C. Oates Download Open image “Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.” — William C. Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair American civil war Change Civil war Conditions History Humans Nature of man Rapid change Rapids Results Unexpected War
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects. — John Adams Copy Share Image
That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible… — Milton William Cooper Copy Share Image
Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. — Zhu Rongji Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in… — William C. Oates Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
