Quotes by Authors - Page 206

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
Change is the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh
When you're through changing you're through.
Bruce Barton
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
Change is the law of life.
John F Kennedy
Everything changes but change itself.
John F Kennedy
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
Carlene Hatcher Polite
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
Ralph L. Woods
For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F Kennedy
Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.
Hugh Prather
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Oscar Wilde
I've learned only that you never say never.
Marina von Neumann Whitman
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Finley Peter Dunne
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
Samuel Butler
Change must be measured from a known base line.
Evan Shute
When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noël Coward
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
T.S Eliot
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.
Thomas Hood
All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)
Anonymous
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
J. Christopher Herold
Luck is being ready for the chance.
J. Frank Dobie
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The harder you work the luckier you get.
Gary Player
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.
Anonymous American Lawyer
Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor Hugo
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.
Anonymous
The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental not physical.
Mary Baker Eddy
Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.
Anonymous
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas Haliburton
Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.
Lawrence Appley
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Stuart Udall
After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
Anonymous
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono
I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
A company is judged by the president it keeps.
James Hulbert
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.
George Brockway
The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.
James Holland
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?
Anonymous
In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
George Gilder
Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
David Lilienthal
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Herbert Casson
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David Thoreau
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter