Gordon Parks Quotes

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.