Norbert Wiener Quotes

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

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.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Everything changes, nothing is lost.