Quotes of Volatile - somelinesforyou

“ With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle. ”

- Johnny Vegas

“ Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. ”

- Tyra Banks

“ Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ The flame is not out, but it is flickering. ”

- Ken Burns

“ My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. ”

- David Friedman

“ The problem is, it's such an unstable situation over there. Their future is in jeopardy. ”

- Lisa Miller

“ The very few times which we have intervened have occurred,... when we believe the markets are unstable and that intervention might have an impact. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. ”

- May Sarton

“ The fickle populace always change with the prince. ”

- Claudian

“ Popularity is a fickle jade. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. ”

- Leontyne Price

“ I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. ”

- Homer

“ We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions, and prepare for them with enlightened foresight. ”

- Pope Pius XI

“ In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. ”

- Horace

“ Butterflies dot springtime with flitting airy kisses. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ”

- George Santayana

“ Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite. ”

- Friedrich Hegel
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