Change Quotes

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

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

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

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

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Bertrand Russell

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

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

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

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen