Constant Quotes - page 3

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. (Antonio Tabucchi)
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history. View quote
Wade Davis
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. View quote
Phil Knight
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. View quote
George Jean Nathan
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. View quote
Alison Gopnik
The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations. View quote
Alfred Binet
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. View quote
May Sarton
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. (Evan Dando)
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. View quote
Indra Devi
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. View quote
Mike McCready
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. View quote
Nicholas Lea
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. View quote
Robert Wyatt
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. View quote
Roger Staubach
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. View quote
Charles Darwin
The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy. View quote
Aage Niels Bohr
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. (Evelyn Waugh)
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! View quote
Camille Claudel
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. View quote
Georgy Zhukov
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on. View quote
Maimonides
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. View quote
Jean Chrétien