Mutable Quotes

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet. View quote
William Boyd
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches. View quote
Eric Kripke
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. View quote
James Madison
For in a world so mutable and blind it's often constancy to change one's mind. View quote
Torquato Tasso
My lord, you know what Virgil sings- Woman is various and most mutable. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
... reality is always plural and mutable. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! View quote
Mary Shelley
The vicious lover is the follower of earthly Love who desires the body rather than the soul; his heart is set on what is mutable and must therefore be inconstant. And as soon as the body he loves begins to pass the first flower of its beauty, he "spreads his wings and flies away," giving the lie to all his pretty speeches and dishonoring his vows, whereas the lover whose heart is touched by moral beauties is constant all his life, for he has become one with what will never fade. View quote
Plato
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge. (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain. View quote
Chloe Benjamin
There is no permanent canon of forms of normative argument. Our ways of arguing about ideals are, like our other practices, the mutable products of a specific history and the expressions of our ideas about society and thought. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I cannot without great astonishment - I might say without great insult to my intelligence - hear it attributed as a prime perfection and nobility of the natural and integral bodies of the universe that they are invariant, immutable, inalterable, etc., while on the other hand it is called a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, mutable, etc. For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly. If, not being subject to any changes. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. View quote
Mary Shelley
The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so. View quote
Tim Hurson
Religion is partly fundamental & immutable partly circumstantial & mutable. View quote
Isaac Newton