Stable Quotes

There is nothing so stable as change. (Bob Dylan)
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Move like a beam of light; Fly like lightning, Strike like thunder, Whirl in circles around A stable center. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. View quote
John Steinbeck
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined... View quote
Carroll Quigley
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. View quote
John Keats
In addition, a century or more of efforts to arrive at a feasible and politically acceptable mix of market and nonmarket elements has not produced a definitive, stable, or uniform solution. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family. (Jon Ronson)
Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere. View quote
Selena
We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. View quote
Grace Napolitano
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. View quote
Herbert Croly
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. View quote
John Adams
We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat. View quote
Kofi Annan
The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile. View quote
John Danforth
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place. View quote
John Dewey
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. (Augustus)
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
Organizations and institutions permit stable expectations to be formed by each member of the group as to the behavior of the other members under specified conditions. View quote
Herbert Simon
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith