Tim O'Brien Quotes

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

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

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

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

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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.

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

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.

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

History is a fickle lady.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

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.

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

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

In life, sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down.

Life is change.