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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates470–399 BC
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Socrates470–399 BC
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates470–399 BC
“Old” and “new” are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world.
Susan Sontag1933–2004Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
- Change
We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?
Susan Sontag1933–2004Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
- Change
- Life & Death
Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.
Sophocles496–406 BCAjax, Lines 550–551 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
- Family
- Luck
Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance,
With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?
Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by JocastaIn context
- Fear
- Luck
There are no solutions…there are only trade-offs.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Britney Spearsborn 1981
I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.
Britney Spearsborn 1981
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
Henry Spencerborn 1955
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up (1945)
- Age
- Change
After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Paris France (1940)
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 4: The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196
- Art
- Change
Without losers, where would the winners be?
Casey Stengel1890–1975The Gospel According to Casey (1992), ed. Berkow & Kaplan, St. Martin’s Press, p. 19, as cited in The Executive’s Book of Quotations (1994), ed. Martin & Moskin, Oxford University Press, p. 299