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Quotes About Fluctuation

smaller populations are inherently more variable.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
~ Joseph Addison
The sudden change in her eyes says it all. One second she loves me, and the next she loves me not.
~ Ernest Cline
That overall, all-inclusive, never-changing set of rules does not exist—for you are ever-changing, growth-seeking Beings.
~ Esther Hicks
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
~ George Gurdjieff
There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.
~ Michael Mina
Time does not run in a straight line, like the markings on a wooden ruler. It stretches and shrinks, as if the ruler were made of balloon rubber. This is true in daily life: We perk up during high drama, nod off when bored. Markets do the same.
~ Benoît B. Mandelbrot
The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.
~ Bill Thomas
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
~ Billie Holiday
This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.
~ James Corden
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
~ Gustave Flaubert
You, married." He shook his head. "I was never big on commitment, was I?" "You change partners like a cineplex changes movies." Esperanza
~ Harlan Coben
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
~ Keira Knightley
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Every hundred feet the world changes
~ Roberto Bolaño, 2666
I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Here's how they rated him when the looked back: sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.
~ Simon Armitage
We all know the kinds of short-term states we can enter that can compromise our empathy. These include being drunk, tired, impatient, or stressed, during which we might say or do the wrong thing to someone else and later regret it. The feeling of regret is a sign of our empathy circuit coming back on, but the fact that we say or do the wrong thing is nevertheless—at that moment—a fluctuation in our empathy circuit.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Love changes, and in change is true.
~ Wendell Berry
All love shifts and changes.
~ Julie Andrews
Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
This has fluctuated, of course, with the general rate of economic activity, but it has shown no general tendency to advance with wholesale prices or the cost of living.
~ Benjamin Graham
El mercado es un péndulo que oscila constantemente entre un optimismo insostenible (que hace que las acciones sean demasiado caras) y un pesimismo injustificado (que hace que sean demasiado baratas). El inversor inteligente es un realista que vende a optimistas y compra a pesimistas. E
~ Benjamin Graham
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
~ Bernard Malamud