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“A diverse community is a resilient community, capable of adapting to changing situations.”
Fritjof Capra (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificance of the fixed stars. Is not a man different, utterly different, at dawn from what he is at sunset? And a woman too? And does not the changing harmony and discord of their variation make the secret music of life?”
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: January 1854
“When the velocity and the acceleration are changing, we can define the instantaneous velocity or acceleration at any moment as the average values... over a vanishingly small time interval centered on that moment. Newton's Law actually relates the force to the instantaneous acceleration.”
Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct impression of the kind of life you have arranged for yourself in the next existence. If you are not pleased with what you discover, then you had better begin changing the nature of your thoughts and feelings.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The psyche is awareized energy, in a state of constant creativity; a psychic pattern of multidimensionally expressed; each point within it changing in relationship to all other points, and thus altering the entire pattern or model. Each self is immersed in the psyche, yet immersed in its own individuality simultaneously, experiencing reality in time and out of it at once.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Television tells us everyday that we live in a world we don't understand. And yet in the main it does little to explain that world. It tells us of new products that make the products we have either old-fashioned or obsolete. Above all, if today we are aware of how fast the world around us is changing, it's because television acts as a relentless reminder of that fact.”
James Burke (science historian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was too anthropomorphic to consider the lifecycle of a star as some analogy of human birth, life and death. A star was a construct of physical processes; the evolution it went through was simply a search for equilibrium stages between changing, opposing forces. There was no life or death involved, no loss or gain: just process. Why shouldn’t it be beautiful?”
Stephen Baxter (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 November 1864
“Noble the house was, nor seemed built for war, But rather like the work of other days, When men, in better peace than now they are, Had leisure on the world around to gaze, And noted well the past times' changing ways; And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought, By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wanderer trembled when he saw all this, Because he deemed by magic it was wrought; Yet in his heart a longing for some bliss Whereof the hard and changing world knows nought, Arose and urged him on, and dimmed the thought That there perchance some devil lurked to slay The heedless wanderer from the light of day.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are going to democratize the chamber and the senate, we also have to democratize the monarchy, give it the opportunity, when it feels the need to obtain direct advice, support from the changing electoral corps.”
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 King Leopold II explains on the back of a lettre in which he threatens to abdicate.
“Ooh, little boy, in between changing fathers. Little girl has to live without Mother. They don't understand why they seem not to need them, Although all they need is a loving hand.”
Amber (singer) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Time for a Child" (written by Amber's sister, Anne-Fleur Cremers), My Kind of World (2004).
“That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. letters from ny wqadd”
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 37 (March 1843)
“Henceforth there are to be no fixed or inviolable principles of law at all—only an endlessly changing legal response to the fashionable causes of the moment.”
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All Our Pomp of Yesterday (Summer 1999).
“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”
Alice Walker (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.”
Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, for years people have been talking about creating an Islamic bond – or – outside the Islamic world. But it’s just never quite happened. Changing that is a question of pragmatism and political will. And here in Britain we’ve got both. This government wants Britain to become the first sovereign outside the Islamic world to issue an Islamic bond.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum in 2013 - "World Islamic Economic Forum: Prime Minister's speech" Gov.uk (29 October 2013).
“That's why the have the programmes presented by 45 guys; "Hi I'm Ted, I'm Bob, I'm Ralph, I'm Dick, I'm Dale, I'm Nick, I'm Will", and they keep changing all the angles of the camera. "I'm over here, I'm at this desk, I'm standing here" and Wendy comes up from under the desk with the financial weather.”
Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She said, "I'll show you a picture, A picture of tomorrow, There's nothing changing, it's all sorrow." "Oh, no, please don't show me I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me!”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Sad Heart at the Supermarket," Daedalus, vol. 89, no. 2 (Spring 1960); published in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962)
“In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too.”
Tom Robbins (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Technology keeps changing and the cams keep getting smaller. Only fools count on their secrets staying safe forever.”
David Brin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One could find oneself trapped in the economic equivalent of a burning building with no exits. In Asia, those countries that have had the most violent reactions to the financial crisis have been those countries that do not have the safety valve of democratic elections. How will the peoples of Europe react to a recession without the electoral means of changing the people responsible?”
William Hague (born 1961) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Insead Business School in Fontainebleau (19 May 1998), quoted in Andrew Pierce, 'Hague attacks ‘the old men of Europe’', The Times (20 May 1998), p. 1
“There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces. The form of the work is a consequence of this interaction. Possible musical forms are as limitless as the exterior forms of crystals.”
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aspects of 20th Century Music (1975) by Gary Wittlich and Richard P. DeLone
“The world around us was named Scarborough. It had once been called “Scarberia,” a wasteland on the outskirts of a sprawling city. But now, as we were growing up in the early ’80s, in the heated language of a changing nation, we heard it called other names: Scarlem, Scarbistan. We lived in Scar-bro, a suburb that had mushroomed up and yellowed, browned, and blackened into life.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is the last of that old guard defending Cattle Land, Those knights who jousted for the cause — blood brothers of the brand; But now they’ve fenced the water-hole, they’re harrowing the plain, They’re changing all the sagebrush flats to fields of waving grain; The cowmen will be gone, they say, and there are no recruits — Good-bye, brave cattle-puncher in the high-heeled boots!”
Arthur Chapman (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love, Not Duty, st. 1 (1841)
“Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die. Surely the earth, that's wise being very old, Needs not our help. Then loose me, love, and hold Thy sultry hair up from my face; that I May pour for thee this golden wine, brim-high, Till round the glass thy fingers glow like gold. We'll drown all hours: thy song, while hours are toll'd, Shall leap, as fountains veil the changing sky.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.”
Edith Stein (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then.”
Ed Seykota (born 1946) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Koppel, Robert The Intuitive Trader: Developing Your Inner Trading Wisdom, John Wiley & Sons Inc (May 1996), Read it here
“Macro-evolution would be defined as changing into a different kind of animal. There is no similarity between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Many evolutionists will use micro-evolution to try to prove that macro-evolution is true. We must guard ourselves not to fall for this false logic.”
Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The changing seasons of the Midwest – the intense heat in summer, bitter cold in winter, and unsurpassable beauty and invigorating weather of fall and spring – is what makes it an interesting place to live. Only robust and virile people can live in such a climate and enjoy it.”
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (January 6, 1942)
“Oh, for the farm where a man is truly independent, and where he deals with fundamentals, where the changing seasons brings changed work, and a man is out of doors all the time. It is on the farm that a man can devote his life to his investment and see the improvement and growth from year to year...I enjoy thinking of such things and there is no doubt that I am a midwesterner through and through.”
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his father (June 29, 1942)
“The protocol is a mess. It was very poorly negotiated [...] I think some of the promises made after the protocol that there would be no checks on trade from Britain and Northern Ireland, how those promises came to be made I cannot imagine because they were patently wrong. The protocol needs changing. I am baffled as to how we could have reached a situation where that protocol was accepted.”
John Major (born 1943) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Brexit withdrawal agreement in a meeting with the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons (7 February 2023) as cited in "Boris Johnson agreed Brexit prot…
“Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.”
Azar Nafisi (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If 60 Minutes will not do a story on me, it's their problem not mine. I'm changing the world; they're just reporting on it.”
Dov Charney (born 1969) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PR Week (2002)
“A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.”
Richard Rodriguez (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2597. Keep thy Judgment to thyself. Why should others know what thou art? or paraphrase upon thy Opinion? Herein thou hast the Advantage of changing thy Mind when thou art mistaken, and yet continue ( for ought others know ) in the same Mind.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.”
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.”
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Strategy" (1871), as translated in Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings (1993) by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, p. 124
“I won't get over that in a hurry: my least favourite atrophied Hazel McWitch lookalike in the world, singing "I just want to make love to you", right there on primetime telly. She has to be the only person on Earth who can take a lyric like that and make it seem like a blood-curdling threat without changing any of the words.”
Charlie Brooker (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire”
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.”
Jasper Johns (born 1930) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sixteen Americans, (1959) Dorothy C. Miller, Moma, New York, p. 22
“Wouldn't it be wonderful to paint a nude here? [along the river near Aix ] There are innumerable motifs here on the banks of the river; the same spot viewed from a different angle offers a subject of the utmost interest. It is so varied that I think I could keep busy for months without changing my place, simply turning now tot the right and now to the left.”
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in a conversation with Vollard, along the river near Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74