Quotations About / On: CHANGE

  • 41.
    There's nothing constant in the world,
    All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born
    Bears in its womb the seeds of change.
    (Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Metamorphoses, 15. 177-178.)
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  • 42.
    This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds.
    (Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Little Poems in Prose (Paris Spleen), "Anywhere Out of the World," (1867).)
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  • 43.
    Heaven forbids that man should know
    What change tomorrow's fate may bring.
    (Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40-96), Roman poet. Thebais, 3. 562.)
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  • 44.
    It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
    (Jules Furthman (1888-1960), U.S. screenwriter, and Josef von Sternberg. Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich), in Shanghai Express (film) (1932).)
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  • 45.
    Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 46.
    They would not guess how early in
    Their supine stationary voyage
    The air would change to soundless damage....
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "A Arundel Tombn.")
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  • 47.
    ... if art speaks clearly about something relevant to people's lives it can change the way they perceive reality.
    (Judy Chicago (b. 1939), U.S. artist. As quoted in The Political Palate, ch. 3, by Betsey Beaven, et al. (1980).)
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  • 48.
    Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss:
    My true love hath my heart and I have his.
    (Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Arcadia. . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
    More quotations from: Sir Philip Sidney, hurt, change, heart, love
  • 49.
    The seasons change their manners, as the year
    Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Gloucester, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 4, sc. 4, l. 123-4. "As" means as if; on unseasonable and strange weather.)
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  • 50.
    I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
    (Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), The Player, at a script conference (1992). A reference to Jesus' miracle at Cana. Based On Tolkin's Novel.)
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