Emma Donoghue Quotes

The world's a scene of changes.

Stability is not the way of the world.

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

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

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.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

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

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

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

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

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.

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

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.

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

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

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.