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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
jimmy carter— 1978 Address to the Parliament of India, 2 Jun.
Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle— 1917 His Last Bow, title story.
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Edmund Waller— 1645 'Of EnglishVerse'.
When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men
phil brown— 14-Jan-2007, Hull City OWS
— Last season they were women?
The stormy March has come at last,With winds and clouds and changing skies;I hear the rushing of the blastThat through the snowy valley flies.
william cullen bryant— March. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.
empedocles— "On Purifications", line 369; p. 205
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as ’t is fair.
Reginald Heber— "On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope".
We have lived and loved togetherThrough many changing years;We have shared each other's gladness,And wept each other's tears.
charles jeffreys— We have lived and loved together, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
— Ch. 39 (Of Human Bondage (1915))
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
Charles Mingus— Statement to Nat Hentoff , as quoted in California Rock, California Sound : The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (1979) by Anthony Fawcett, p. 56; also in “Jazz : Beyond Time and Nations” in The Nat Hentoff Reader (2001), Part 2 : The Passion of Creation, p. 99
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
— Ch. 29 (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974))
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Crabbed Age and Youth.
The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running, which would undoubtedly be more of a loss to their friends and families than to either rock or roll.Their guitarist on the extreme left, allegedly known as Joe Strummer, has good moves but he and the band are a little shaky on ground that involves starting, stopping and changing chords at approximately the same time."
joe strummer— Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 1976 (source)
Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
george w. bush— Remarks by the President In Photo Opportunity with the National Security Team, September 12, 2001
Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might, the majesty of loveliness?
lord byron— "The Bride of Abydos," Canto I, stanza 6
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides— l. 962. (Alcestis (438 BC))
We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.
carl jung— p 110
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 65 (The Skin Map (2010))
It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
clifford d. simak— Chapter XXV (p. 135)
“I can’t change what I am ovenight.” “Nor can I. And yet, one can’t stop changing, either.”
joan slonczewski— Part 6, Chapter 16 (p. 368)
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.
William Butler Yeats— The Cat And The Moon
In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.
— Chapter Five, The Politics Of International Trade, p. 228
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.
— Chapter Eight, International Finance, p. 336
In Pataliputra, India , which is now the city of Patna, legend also says that the Emerald Buddha was created in Patna (then Pataliputra) by Agrasena in 43 BCE...in Northern Thailand, lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang Rai, after which something became visible under the stucco . The Emerald Buddha was dug out and the people thought the figurine was made from emerald , hence its current name...The Buddha 's clothing are changed by the King of Thailand, to celebrate the changing of seasons .
— Ryan Fyfe , in The Emerald Buddha, ESL Teachers Board.
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
Jane Smiley— "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" (September 5, 2011)
There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
— Mark E. Kelly in an an interview prior to STS-121
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 111.
"Gordon Brown thinks you can solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. I think you should solve climate change by changing the government"
siân berry— Green Party of England and Wales Principle Speaker [4]
