Quotes About Change

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.

when we choose a belief and act on it, we change the way things are.

All that can be expected from modern improvements is that legislation should easily and quickly, yet not too quickly, modify itself in accordance with the will of the de facto supreme power in the community

On the contrary: she thought that the conditions that had made Hitler possible were still present, and that the West needed to be reborn. The European tradition had destroyed itself. "The whole of nearly three thousand years of Western civilization with all its implied beliefs, traditions, and standards of judgment has come toppling down over our heads," she wrote.47

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

Sadly, in these rush-rush, hurry-hurry days, not too many young people study the art of paper clip bending. There are only a handful of master benders left in the whole world. And who knows, in ten or twenty years there might not be any. Everyone will have to switch to staples.

In a few years, Camp Greenlake will be a girl scout camp.

But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns it goes slowly--but it can't be stopped.

If every one agreed, we should never get on.

I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.

Don't suggest that we are growing old, my Lord. We have only bloomed; and a very nice bouquet we make with our buds about us,' answered Mrs. Amy, shaking out the folds of her rosy muslin with much the air of dainty satisfaction the girl used to show in a new dress. Not to mention our thorns and dead leaves,' added Jo, with a sigh; for life had never been very easy to her, and even now she had her troubles both within and without.

for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.