These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky. ❋ Edith (2003)
It came from long brooding on the changefulness of human fortune, of fate and chance, and the folly of counting on anything beyond the moment. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)
There Thingol Greycloak of Doriath was their king, and in the long twilight their tongue had changed with the changefulness of mortal lands and had become far estranged from the speech of the Eldar from beyond the Sea. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
Its double tints and strange changefulness, and the smooth creamy cheeks with their moving islets of roses that would come and go at a word, were pretty protests of Nature, I used to think, against the demure tints of her pearl-gray silken gown. ❋ Various (N/A)
Our ville, so important to us, has scarcely an existence for our home government, and administrative changes there float over us like clouds of heaven, without touching us in their changefulness. ❋ Various (N/A)
Again, while he has the utmost of moral stability and constancy, and also great firmness of intellectual adhesion to main principles, there is in him a certain minor changefulness. ❋ Various (N/A)
A day was coming, and it was the day of reality for which he lived, ever present and ever certain, when this sad world was to put _off for ever_ its changefulness and its misery, and the grave was to be robbed of its victory, and the bodies were to come forth purified by their long sleep. ❋ Frederick W. Robertson (N/A)
Taken all together and linked to the assumption -- fundamental in this report -- that the Potomac and its landscape deserve rescue and coordinated right use, these areas of doubt, changefulness, and difficulty add up to a strong body of argument for flexible continuing planning on a Basinwide scale and for a specific, authoritative Potomac ❋ United States. Dept. Of The Interior. (N/A)
When they spoke their faces showed a certain changefulness that denoted intelligence, but never lost the look of force, of an almost tense masculinity ready to battle, perpetually alive to hold its own. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
With that swift changefulness that was distinctive of her nature, she sought to make amends as best she could, although she understood that the task was well-nigh a hopeless one. ❋ Thompson Buchanan (1907)
It was there that I saw nature in all her moods, and felt that to each my own moods responded; there that despondency, imagining her monotony of woe, was confuted by the saving changefulness of created things. ❋ Unknown (1905)
And we have neither the changefulness nor the vast extent of the sunset colouring. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)
Such was the changefulness of her mood that her smiles were as radiant and generously bestowed as her previous demeanor had been repelling. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)
Sometimes, in his zeal for their improvement and in the wish to encourage his flock, he even seems to condone their faults, venturing to ascribe to God what may almost be styled mere good-nature, as when he speaks of God, Himself immutable, as no stern Judge of our changefulness, but rather appeased by the wish on our part for better things than angry because we cannot perform impossibilities. ❋ Unknown (1898)
It must be remembered that variations in habit may give an animal a new opportunity to test variations in structure which arise mysteriously from within, as expressions of germinal changefulness rather than as imprints from without. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
When we consider the changefulness of living creatures, the transformations of cultivated plants and domesticated animals, the gradual alterations in the fauna of a country, the search after new haunts, the forming of new habits, and the discovery of many inventions, are we not convinced that Evolution is going on? ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
Very important in the evolution of human races must have been the alternating occurrence of periods of in-breeding (endogamy), tending to stability and sameness, and periods of out-breeding (exogamy), tending to changefulness and diversity. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
There is a fourth great reason for the struggle for existence, namely, the frequent changefulness of the physical environment, which forces animals to answer back or die; but the first three reasons have most to do with the very common assumption of some sort of disguise. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
[Shaun] R. - "Do you have [the change] for the beer?"
Mike S. - "Yeah *hands me $7*, but I don't have your change change."
Shaun R. - "That's all right, I just wanted [the bills] anyways." ❋ Brontobyte (2010)
"The [American people] want change." -- [Pick] a [Candidate] ❋ Jason Ru (2008)
[I see no changes].
[Now] there are. ❋ Normal_Criminal (2004)
[Times] are a-changing. ❋ Hercolena Oliver (2008)
[I see no changes]
All [I see] is racist [faces] ❋ Timpac (2004)
"[I see no changes]. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself,
"Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?"
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black.
My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch.
Cops give a damn about a negro? [Pull the trigger], kill a nigga, he's a hero.
Give the crack to the kids [who the hell cares]? One less hungry mouth on the welfare." ❋ Zach (2005)
man: "hey you should search changed"
[peanut brain]: "what's changed?"
man: "just search it"
peanut brain: "ok"
*peanut brain [fucking dies] from the horrible [images]* ❋ W I N N I N G S M I L E (2021)
A. My wife is having [hot flashes]. I think she's going through "the change".
B. [Shit dude], after your wife goes through "the change", you can jizz in her [all you want]. ❋ Jim-Bob McDuggan (2009)
[Boy 1]: "Dude, this [zit] on my face makes me look really ugly"
Boy 2: "No change there"
Girl 1: "That dress Mary is wearing makes her look [sooooo] fat"
Girl 2: "No change there" ❋ Jibbyjames (2009)
WOMAN: [How old are you]?
MAN: [34] [and some change]. ❋ Mr. Terrence L. Trezvant (2008)
