Change Quotes

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

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

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Ka

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. On dismissing 12, 000 striking air traffic controllers.

Ronald Reagan

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Chinese Prove

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Francis Bacon

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

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

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Cicero

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius Gary

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

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

Peter Borden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

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

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

Franklin P. Jones

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edwards Deming

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerne