Varium Et Mutabile Quotes & Sayings

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. — Jacques Derrida

If you change the environment, you change the people. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control. — Steve Backley

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) — Virgil

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard never runs out of ink. — Jason Landry

Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury. — Joe Hill

Varium et mutabile! murmurs the man sagely - "A woman's privilege is to change her mind!" If the nature of his industry were such that he had to change his mind from cooking to cleaning, from cleaning to sewing, from sewing to nursing, from nursing to teaching, and so, backward, forward, crosswise and over again, from morning to night - he too would become adept in the lightning-change act. The man adopts one business and follows it. He develops special ability, on long lines, in connection with wide interests - and so grows broader and steadier. The distinction is there, but it is not a distinction of sex. This is why the man forgets to mail the letter. He is used to one consecutive train of thought and action. She, used to a varying zigzag horde of little things, can readily accommodate a few more. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes
Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang — Jermaine Dupri

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder. — Alan Macfarlane

Home is the best place to be sick in. — Margaret Deland