Tacitus Quotes

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

The game doesn't change.

I will accept comments and criticism about change.

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.

Times change and you have to adapt.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.