| "It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement." »Anthony D'Angelo |
| "Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." »Confucius |
| "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." »George Orwell |
| "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." »Okakura Kakuzo |
| "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." »Christina Baldwin |
| "Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due." »Domitus Ulpian |
| "History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature." »David Hume |
| "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana |
| "It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles." »Claude M. Bristol |
| "Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." »Socrates |
| "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." »Derek Bethune |
| "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." »Charles W. Eliot |
| "Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror." »Herb Brody |
| "For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence." »George Barrell Cheever |
| "All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky |
| "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas |
| "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare |
| "America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America" »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant." »Edna Ferber |
| "Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth." »Susanne Langer |
| "Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare |
| "Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid." »Jed Seidel |
| "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson |
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