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The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. -- Hu Shih
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. -- Edward Gibbon
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. -- Eisaku Sato
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. -- Seneca the Younger
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths -- Daisaku Ikeda
Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by. -- James Gates Percival
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do. -- Sarah Manguso
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning. -- Samuel Daniel
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table. -- Bill Moyers
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before. -- Thomas Sowell
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences. -- Eda LeShan
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history. -- Peter Kropotkin
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude. -- Giordano Bruno
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith. -- Alexander Hamilton
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections. -- Robert H. Jackson
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture. -- John Knox
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. -- Bill Moyers
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit. -- Samuel Johnson
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes. -- Trey Gowdy
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death! -- Max Heindel
When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience. -- Rory Kinnear
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! -- Cesare Beccaria
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. -- Meghan Daum
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance. -- Helen Keller
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. -- Hugh Blair
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. -- Benjamin Graham
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. -- Boethius
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past. -- Alexander Humboldt
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. -- Jean Baudrillard
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare -- Gautama Buddha
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt. -- Orhan Pamuk
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes. -- Yoweri Museveni
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business. -- Lord Chesterfield
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion. -- Charles Lyell
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs. -- Lord Chesterfield

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