Quotes About Change

The world I hadn't grown up in was spinning away.

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

Faster' by the Manic Street Preachers:

Everything Must Go by the Manic Street Preachers.

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it was particularly glaring in the twentieth century – and, I would add (so far), the twenty-first too.

Man is simply man, and there's nothing that can be done with him. There is no evolution. There is one very simple law, the law of the conservation of violence. It's as simple as the law of the conservation of energy. Violence is eternal, no matter what is done to destroy it. It does not disappear or diminish; it can only change shape.

Adversity favours the versatile.

What drives history is the human ambition to alter one's condition to match one's hopes.'3

It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption of voting systems and of representative institutions; hoarse cries for change from the streets; the undertow of violence; the mailed fist as the army strides in to 'clean things up'. The imbalance of power created by empire, unbalances the empire itself.

All life changes the world, which is in a constant process of flux. Humans,

Immigration has changed Britain more than almost any other single social event in post-1945 Britain – more than the increase in longevity, or the Pill, the collapse of deference or the spread of suburban housing. The only change which eclipses it is the triumph of the car.

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

Andrew Martin

What happens at the end of a story? Something changes, or it doesn't. I like it best when things just stop.

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Whatever thoughts are causing you pain, they are only thoughts. You can change a thought.

Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he

The measure of our wisdom is much more about whether we embrace changing circumstances and accept people who are different from ourselves.

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

You can try hitting that reset button, but all it's going to do is change the names of the players, not their actions.