Vicissitude Quotes

#1. The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#2. Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

Thomas Hardy

#3. The sad vicissitude of things.

Laurence Sterne

#4. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Francis Bacon

#5. The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

#6. Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.

John Corey Whaley

#7. I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

Justin Timberlake

#8. Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

Meg Ryan

#9. The Internet hasn't had a chance to really get to where people look at it with the proper level of scrutiny. There's so much bullshit on the Internet. It doesn't get filtered out because it's such a new medium.

Shepard Fairey

#10. I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

Jessica Capshaw

#11. Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

Owen Wilson

#13. Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

John Armstrong

#14. Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Shannon L. Alder