Quotes About Constant

what we call birth is when something first changes out of its former condition, and what we call death is when its identity ceases; things may perhaps be translated hither and thither; nevertheless, they stay constant in their sum total

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

The most constant "whim," historically, has been the disastrous idea just mentioned: that Jesus is here giving laws. For if that is all he is doing, they will certainly be laws that are impossible to keep. The keeping of law turns out to be an inherently self-refuting aim; rather, the inner self must be changed. Trying merely to keep the law is not wholly unlike trying to make an apple tree bear peaches by tying peaches to its branches.

Los sentimientos desempeñan un papel fundamental para navegar a través de la incesante corriente de las decisiones personales que la vida nos obliga a tomar.

In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it's never examined or even noticed by anyone. It's like the sound of blood rushing through your veins—you hear it so constantly that you don't hear it at all.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.

None of that, he said, had necessarily been as bad for very rich people. The richest had gotten richer, there being fewer to own whatever there was. Constant crisis had provided constant opportunity

No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was.

to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

We know there is a conservation law for electric charge; this simply means that the sum of these charges in any process remains constant. If a positive charge pops out of the vacuum, a negative one must accompany it, to keep the overall charge zero, as the vacuum demands. To the best of our knowledge the sum of all charges in the universe is zero-and so it must have been from its origin.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free. ...Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained.

Writing about an economy is like writing about a river. The backdrop is the motion, a constant evolution with no beginning or end. The stories mix human effort and impersonal forces, sometimes working together, sometimes in opposition.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true.

The dreaminess of the night shift is constant, and objects float - keys and coffee cups and Chinese containers and tissues. Time seems free to do what it wants.

She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.