Rory MacLean Quotes

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Stability is not the way of the world.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

People don't like to see instability.