Marquis de Lafayette

I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.

French Revolutionary

Meghan Daum

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.

American Author

Cesare Beccaria

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!

Italian Judge

John C. Calhoun

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

American Statesman

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

American Writer

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

German Scientist

Max Heindel

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!

Danish Celebrity

Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

American Activist

Lady Colin Campbell

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

British Writer

Trey Gowdy

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

American Politician

Focus on sudden or unpredicted changes; not all changes are vicissitudes.

Unexpected Shifts

Although often negative, 'vicissitude' can describe neutral or positive changes.

Neutral Tone

Use 'vicissitude' for changes that impact one's life significantly, not trivial matters.

Emphasize Impact

Highlights the struggles or difficult times faced, rather than minor inconveniences.

Hardship Focus

Often associated with the strength needed to deal with life's difficulties.

Resilience Theme

Fits well when discussing long-term processes with unexpected challenges.

Journey's Obstacles

 But to keep the Fed from being influenced by the day-to-day vicissitudes of politics, it is not under the direct control of any branch of government. Why doesn't the Fed just decide to print infinite hundred dollar bills to make everyone happy and rich? Well, because then the bills wouldn't be worth anything. Think about the purpose of currency,

What gives a dollar bill...

 not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market. And the thing is, too, is that we also feel very helpless about the amount that we consume, which is somewhat reasonable, because in fact, we have designed this system where, if you want to get a job,

Vicissitude