Seldom Change Quotes

#1. People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

Murray Kempton

#3. Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

G. Edward Griffin

#4. I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#6. It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

Harvey Pekar

#7. If you know the power of your thoughts, you would never fear failure.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Frances Lockridge

#9. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Elliot W. Eisner

#10. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Mortimer J. Adler

#11. Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.

Keela Sanders

#12. In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.

Marjorie Kellogg

#14. Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

Nancy Gibbs

#15. My ladsh," said Swithin, "are the besht there ish. It'sh not their fault they're up againsht better people.

Terry Pratchett

#16. You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

Francois Fenelon

#17. The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand ...

Oscar Wilde

#18. Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

#19. If we knew all the answers, we won't ask questions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.

John Gierach

#21. Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Gyan Nagpal

#22. As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day Jr.

#23. An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#24. By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Thomas Carlyle

#25. Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#27. Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

Samuel Johnson

#28. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Clara Mamet

#29. Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Norm MacDonald

#30. Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

James Burnham

#31. As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gregory Benford

#32. Straight roads do not make skilful drivers.

Paulo Coelho

#33. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

#34. Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Irving Ravetch

#35. Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Elspeth Huxley

#36. I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

Ira Levin