Inconstancy Quotes - Page 3

• Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Richard Barnfield

  Fortune, Certain, Constant

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• Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

  Jonathan Alter

  Cancer, Modern Life, Littles

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Disappointment, Needs

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.199, Zondervan

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• Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

  Blaise Pascal

  Appearance, Reason, Disappointed

  Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Focus, Signatures

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• Who can describe
  Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
  Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
  Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
  The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Anger, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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• I know, although when looks meet
  I tremble to the bone,
  The more I leave the door unlatched
  The sooner love is gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Love Is, Doors

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
  Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
  But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
  She's constant only in inconstancy.

  Ovid

  Doe, Fickle, Wavering

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• We say
  This changes and that changes. Thus the constant
  Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
  Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
  In a universe of inconstancy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Change, Girl, Violet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.285, Vintage

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• Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

  William Wilberforce

  Heart, Soul, May

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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