Change Quotes
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.Andre Gide
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 more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.Author Unknown
Things do not change we change.Henry David Thoreau
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
Fashion changes, style remains.Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
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
Change is good, but dollars are better.Anonymous
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
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
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
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)
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.Christina Baldwin
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
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.Lord Acton
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.Euripides
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
