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Quotes About Constancy

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
~ Orson Scott Card
I never change, except in my affections.
~ Oscar Wilde
He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.
~ Confucius
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it thought, savoring the brute constancy of humans and their achievements, no matter how far through the ages they slithered. It was over 800 years old, and didn't look a day over seventy-five.
~ Chet Williamson
Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.
~ Laurie Viera Rigler
It is an acknowledged truth that the constancy of a good father during childhood goes a long way to prevent a girl from letting herself get kicked around by jerkface male sadists later in life -- and I am no exception to this rule.
~ Leah McLaren
Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.
~ Jane Austen
She had never been supplanted. He never even believed himself to see her equal. Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.
~ Jane Austen
Dare not say that men forget sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
~ Jane Austen
Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
~ Jane Austen
and yet you loved him! - Yes. But I did not love only him [...]. And after all, Marianne, after all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant - it is not fit - it is not possible that it should be so.
~ Jane Austen
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
~ Kenneth More
What a fuss people make about fidelity!
~ Oscar Wilde
Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them, but you know they are there.
~ Christy Evans
I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true," Walt Disney said. "This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence.
~ William J. Bennett
My words are like the stars that never change.
~ Chief Seattle