Change Quotes
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
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
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
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.Euripides
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.G. C. Lichtenberg
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.Bertrand Russell
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.Euripides
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.Chinese Prove
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
All things must change to something new, to something strange.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.Kahlil Gibran
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.Hilary Clinton
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 inevitable, growth is intentional.Glenda Cloud
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
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
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.Judge John Kane, US District Court
