Quotes About Change

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

And this, too, shall pass away.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.

this too shall pass

Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Sou um caminhante lento, mas nunca caminho para trás.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, the day of our life, Randall Jarrell called it.

that people don't speak in theories, that the theories they employ change, flexibly, and of necessity, from moment to moment in conversation, that the notion of limiting conversation to a rigid rule of theoretical constancy is an absurd denial of what conversation is.

The trouble with mental catch is that the ball you throw changes in midair into another.

We had moved in a single November night from ideology to politics—from what you _want_ to what you do—with the usual disappointing results.

The sign at Starbucks should read "Friends are like snowflakes: more different and beautiful each time you cross their path in our common descent." For the final truth about snowflakes is that they become more individual as they fall; that, buffeted by wind and time, they are translated, as if by magic, into every stranger and more complex patterns, until at las they touch earth. Then, like us, they melt.

What made me sad just then was the new knowledge that things changed, and there was nothing you could do about it. In a way, that was a Parisian emotion too.