Change Quotes
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.Buddha
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.Gore Vidal
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
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...Hugh Elliott
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene V. Debs
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
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 appears to change when we change.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.Ovid, Metamorphoses
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
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)
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.Sylvia Plath
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.George Shinn
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.Suzanne Necke
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.Benjamin Franklin
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.Thaddeus Golas
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.Johann von Goethe
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
