Change Quotes
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.Euripides
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
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
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.Luigi Barzini
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Gertrude Stein
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
People change and forget to tell eachother.Lillian Hellman
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.Robert Francis Kennedy
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.Socrates
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.C. G. Jung
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.Glenda Cloud
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Nothing endures but change.Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.Hazel Henderson
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.Homer, The Odyssey
We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.Lynn Hall
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.A. W. Toze
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
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
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
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.Tori Amos
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
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
