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Quotes About Flux

It is possible to grow and not to grow, to grow less and to grow bigger, both at once—yes, even to grow by means of not growing!
~ George MacDonald
They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they'd believed in was just so much junk. They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn't know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn't blame them. That was what it felt like.
~ George Orwell
They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn't know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn't blame them. That was what it felt like.
~ George Orwell
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.
~ George R. Stewart
I was in error when I saw him as fixed and stable and thought I would have him forever. He was never fixed, nor stable, but always just a passing, temporary energy-burst.
~ George Saunders
I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and the wide world not stable. All alter, are altering, in every instant.
~ George Saunders
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
~ George Soros
That's me. Exist in the swing. Never still, never one thing or the other, always moving from one extreme to the furthest reaches of the other.
~ Sarah Kane
Not every narrative is an arc. The universe, for example, just keeps expanding.
~ Sarah Manguso
You will not find lasting peace in the world around you, in circumstances, or in human relationships. The external world is always in flux—under the curse of death and decay. But there is a gold mine of Peace deep within you, waiting to be tapped. Take
~ Sarah Young
There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
I will still carry on changing all the time.
~ Jimmy Page
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
~ Lucretius
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
~ May Sarton
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
~ Alan Kay
The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.
~ Barack Obama
Change is the very fabric of our time.
~ David Brin
HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
~ Douglas Coupland
A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.
~ Ruth Ozeki
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's weird how time can change something you thought would always stay the same.
~ Susane Colasanti
All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
~ Vanessa Mae
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.
~ Kate Bush
Everyone changes all the time.
~ Ken Livingstone