„In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.“
— Malcolm X, kniha The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Zdroj: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Podobné citáty
„Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
But, sprung at once to beauty’s perfect round,
Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,—
A life-complete in death-complete to die.“
— John B. Tabb American poet 1845 - 1909
The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Although Tolstoy in his protest recognized the fact that he was bound up with all others, neither this nor the knowledge of his individual helplessness induced him to work with others in order to change any part of the infamous governmental system of Russia.“
— Robert Hunter (author) American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874 - 1942
Zdroj: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 67
„Such fire was not by water to be drowned,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.“
— Ludovico Ariosto, kniha Orlando Furioso
Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,
Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
Canto XXVIII, stanza 89 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
„God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change.“
— Avicenna medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher 980 - 1037
As quoted in 366 Readings From Islam (2000), edited by Robert Van der Weyer
Kontext: God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
„Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.“
— Christopher Paolini, kniha Inheritance
Zdroj: Inheritance (2011)
„It certainly looks like the days of the Confederate battle flag flying on the grounds of the state house in Columbia, South Carolina are numbered. This is in large part due to prominent South Carolina political leaders changing positions under pressure given the recent mass murder in the state. No one can deny that. The arguments concerning the display of that particular flag are neither more nor less valid than before. Nor will the flag’s removal silence white supremacists and Confederate heritage advocates, especially those who have freely associated with white supremacists.“
— Brooks D. Simpson American historian 1957
2010s, Down It Comes: No What? (June 2015)
„Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians… And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.“
— Libba Bray, kniha The Sweet Far Thing
Zdroj: The Sweet Far Thing
„Rich Cloaths, nor Cost, nor Education can
Change Nature, nor transform and Ape into a Man.“
— John Ogilby Scottish academic 1600 - 1676
Fab. LV: Of an Ægyptian King and his Apes
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
„No man's more fortunate than he who's poor,
Since for the worse his fortune cannot change.“
— Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy
Fragment 23
Fabulae Incertae
„How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new life he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.“
— Robert Browning, After
After.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.“
— Abul A'la Maududi Indian theologian, politician and philosopher 1903 - 1979
1981, Murtad ki Saza Islami Qanun Mein, Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi, page 32, Lahore Islamic Publications Ltd, 8th edition.
After 1970s
„“I can’t change what I am ovenight.”
“Nor can I. And yet, one can’t stop changing, either.”“
— Joan Slonczewski, kniha A Door into Ocean
Part 6, Chapter 16 (p. 368)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
„People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t“
— Stephen Fry, kniha Moab Is My Washpot
Zdroj: Moab Is My Washpot
„Such people who choose to depress are not mentally ill; their brain chemistry is not abnormal. It is changed from what it is when they are happy, but that change is perfectly normal for the total behavior, depressing, they are choosing…. The brain chemistry no more causes his depressing than sweating causes running. It is the choice to depress or to run that results in both.“
— William Glasser American psychiatrist 1925 - 2013
Zdroj: Choice Theory (1997), p. 85
„Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.“
— Octavio Paz Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature 1914 - 1998
Zdroj: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 2
Kontext: Ought I to say that the form of change is fixity, or more precisely, that change is an endless search for fixity? A nostalgia for inertia: indolence and its frozen paradises. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. It is transition. But the moment I say transition, the spell is broken. Transition is not wisdom, but a simple going toward… Transition vanishes: only thus is it transition.