It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Nothing recedes like progress.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Money does not change people, people change.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

History is more or less bunk.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.