Quotes About Inconstancy

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him. -from By diverse means we arrive at the same end

Man is indeed an object miraculously vain, various and wavering. It is difficult to found a judgement on him which is steady and uniform.

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.

Hay días en que me siento dispuesto a hacerlo todo y otros en que me siento incapaz de hacer nada; lo que ahora me es grato, en ocasiones suele desagradarme.

La obsesión de los primeros es lírica: se buscan a sí mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es, como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse. El desengaño que los lleva de una mujer a otra le brinda a su inconstancia cierta disculpa romántica, de modo que muchas mujeres sentimentales pueden sentirse conmovidas por su terca poligamia.

But even her Greek property did not inspire Elisabeth to settle down. Hardly had the castle been completed that she set out again, not unlike the way she had behaved about the Hermes Villa, which she no longer especially liked.

And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.

Enthusiasm's as slippery as a bar of soap in a bathtub,' Lou said. 'Now you have it, now you don't.

Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción.

Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que todos están de acuerdo en no repetir los recientes horrores. Sin embargo, esta coincidencia colectiva no suele durar. Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción. Pero ¿quién sabe? Quizá esta vez sea la buena, Katniss.

We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

Carlos, sossegue, o amor é isso que você está vendo: hoje beija, amanhã não beija, depois de amanhã é domingo e segunda-feira ninguém sabe o que será.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.