Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

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

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

History is a fickle lady.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

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

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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