Quote in: Rex Black (2004) Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect. p. 12
The secrets of consulting, 1985
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.
As quoted in Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976) by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, p. 224, also in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 390
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)”
D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
James E. Lovelock (1919) independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist
Interview with The Guardian (29 March 2010)
“Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Brian Greene (1963) American physicist
Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
