J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

The world's a scene of changes.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Stability is not the way of the world.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Everything is going to change.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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

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