Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Stability is not the way of the world.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

History is a fickle lady.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

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

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

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

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Football is a changeable game. From one day to another, everything could change.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.