John Dryden Quotes

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Everything changes but change.

Love hasn't changed, and it never will, no matter what kind of a society we become.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

Human-nature will not change.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

I have to change to stay the same.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Things change, but they stay the same.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.