Martin Luther Quotes

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Everybody is as unstable as water.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

The British Government is a strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

You can be first, and then in six games, you can be 12th. The results can just flip, and everybody can forget.

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

If someone's off their line, they're off their line.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.