"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."
― Tom Stoppard
Topic(s):
Change
More From Tom Stoppard
- "From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked."
- "I write out of my intellectual experience."
- "I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
More In Change
- "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction."― Bill Gates
- "People find themselves in ruts all the time. You’re in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you’re OK with it, there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’ve got unease, then you’ve got to make a change."― Jeremy Renner
- "A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."― Horace