Top 100 Changeable Quotes
#1. How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize.
Richard J. Borden
#2. September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.
Cameron Dokey
#3. I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
Philip Johnson
#4. 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 wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Martin Luther
#5. 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 from different lights.
Lord Chesterfield
#6. Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#7. It is merely the egoism of men, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#8. The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
Mary Shelley
#9. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I
Janet Fitch
#10. A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.
Joseph Story
#11. The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today's truths becomes tomorrow's disproven hypotheses of forgotten objet d'arts.
Daniel J. Levitin
#12. If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
Ben Goldacre
#13. Rather, we are who God says we are: his children. We are forgivable. We are changeable. We are capable. We are moldable. And we are bound by the limitless love of God.
Craig Groeschel
#14. Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.
Andrew Solomon
#15. But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#16. He's been so changeable with her I'm surprised he's not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills.
Holly Bourne
#17. Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
Paul Craig Roberts
#18. My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
Bill Jay
#19. Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.
Julio Cortazar
#20. 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 morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
Helen Steiner Rice
#21. "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 hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#22. Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Plautus
#23. It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#24. Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#25. Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#27. Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
Allan Kaprow
#28. The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.
Dalene Matthee
#29. Real love is strange and changeable ... but also somehow constant.
Tom Hiddleston
#30. 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 unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
Gautama Buddha
#31. The humblest individual under heaven, Than might suffice a moderate century through. I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable without being new.
George Gordon Byron
#32. Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
Denise Van Outen
#33. Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
William Shakespeare
#34. Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#35. The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.
Cassandra Clare
#37. March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.
Thalassa Cruso
#38. One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.
Dossie Easton
#39. Good describes a situation in comparison with its opposite. Not only that, but what is good or bad also depends on context, which itself is changeable.
Nathan Tamblyn
#40. Our Lord Jesus is no changeable Lover. Having loved his own, he loves them to the end.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
George Gordon Byron
#42. Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#43. The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#44. Life is so Changeable as the Caterpillar into a Butterfly and Everyone like to be so Free as a Bird.
Jan Jansen
#45. I stood there and stared at it - this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean - and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn't mine. My world was much, much smaller
Tamara Ireland Stone
#46. Love is a damage
made to the heart,
violence,
fate thats written,
Changeable by distance,
Breakable by time ... !
Honey Father
#47. A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
Virgil
#48. Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer
#49. The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#50. Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
Arthur Miller
#51. 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 a tool for representing phenomena.
Ernst Mach
#52. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.
Kafka, Franz
#53. A fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#54. Since the future cannot be known and everything is changeable, I beg all of you to find the people you have come to love and express yourself with fervency. You will never have this chance again.
Michael Levy
#55. Nothing is as changeable as our own life.
Jan Jansen
#56. Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
George Bernard Shaw
#57. In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
#58. Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
Louisa May Alcott
#59. His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
Jane Austen
#60. Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.
David Allen
#61. Fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning. That
Carol S. Dweck
#62. From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough.
Kristin Cashore
#63. Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Gautama Buddha
#64. 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 loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.
Pearl Zhu
#66. Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?
Thomas Henry Huxley
#67. I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
Claude Monet
#68. [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
Barbara Walters
#69. One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
Virginia Woolf
#70. I thought it was the opposite," Scarlett said. "The past is set but the future is changeable?" "No. The past is only mostly set, and the future is harder to change than you would think.
Stephanie Garber
#71. The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.
Cath Crowley
#72. The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
Albert Brooks
#73. Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
Thomas Paine
#74. The covenant of works
was contingent on the uncertain obedience of a changeable man, while the covenant of
grace rests on the obedience of Christ as Mediator, which is absolute and certain.
Louis Berkhof
#75. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.
Cinda Williams Chima
#76. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots
prostitute, housewife, saint
like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
Janet Fitch
#77. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
#78. 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 morality.
Stanislaw Lem
#79. There is nothing so changeable as our own live.
Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven.
Jan Jansen
#80. It reminded him that things were not always as they seemed, and that love was slippery and changeable. The
Serena Burdick
#81. I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.
Craig Venter
#82. Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
Thomas Gainsborough
#83. And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants.
Pants = Love
Ann Brashares
#84. The past doesn't exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren't changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
Martha Beck
#85. I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.
M.H. Abrams
#86. 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 this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.
Ayelet Waldman
#87. History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.
Andres Neuman
#88. The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.
Richard C. Lewontin
#89. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#90. I'd never realized how changeless this changeable island was until it turned into something different than I'd ever known.
Maggie Stiefvater
#91. Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.
Augustus William Hare
#92. 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 blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh
#94. The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#95. With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
Marc Blucas
#96. What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She
Madeleine Thien
#98. The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised,
it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#99. for you beautiful ones my thought
is not changeable
Sappho
#100. The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.
A.J. Darkholme
