Quotes About Change

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I loved everything, but it was Kanye West who really changed everything for me.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.

I had moved to Mumbai in 2006 and lived there for around six years while West Bengal was going through a political upheaval. After I returned to Kolkata in February 2012, and started to work here, I realized how things had changed here.

While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.