Change Quotes
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.Thomas Love Peacock
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.Michael Gartne
All things change, nothing perishes.Ovid
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.Laurence J. Pete
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.Lucius Gary
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.Maggie Roche
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.David Letterman
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.Horace Binney
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.Charles Robert Darwin
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
