Quotes About Change

Washington had become so accustomed to slavery that the bizarre began to seem normal.

42 The government was obviously withdrawing its support.

After Pierpont Morgan's death, the House of Morgan would become less autocratic, less identified with a single individual. Power would be diffused among several partners, although Jack Morgan would remain as figurehead.

What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that

By early 1873, he had crossed his own Rubicon and never looked back.

My change is five cents short," Rockefeller declared.

The whole dismal parade of career hacks and self-promoting political generals on the Union side had been weeded out, giving way to a new fighting breed.

John's moustache began to fall out, and all the hair on his body had followed by August.

He seemed to age a generation.

When such remedies failed, Rockefeller decided to buy a wig.

It took Rockefeller time to shed his obsessive concern for Standard Oil and allow himself to be lulled by the restful sea spirit.

As mudanças na condição humana são incertas e frequentes. Muitos aos quais a fortuna concedeu favores podem descobrir que, no passado, as condições de sua família nada tinham de prósperas; e muitos que hoje estão na obscuridade procedem de ancestrais afortunados e nobres.

that favored stability over innovation, predictability over experimentation

Then, overnight, the alopecia seemed to equalize their ages.

Not for the last time, Pierpont contemplated retirement.

As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

measurement of a system can alter its behavior

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities.

I reflected that, when dynamic, positive change happens, it is usually because of generational commitment to social transformation.

And yet rapid change brings chaos as well as progress.

Perhaps the generation that will genuinely transform the Arab world has not yet arrived.

That's what the movement was all about. It was not to destroy anyone. It was to redeem, to save, to convert. It was to change people's attitudes, their positions, their hearts. That's what Dr. King spoke of—redeeming the soul of America, creating the beloved community.

inflection point, when society will make a radical adjustment, for good or ill.