Quotes About Change

Human affairs are always checkered and vicissitudes in this life are rather to be expected than wondered at." 18

I shudder to think of what I should have been if I had remained in Richford all my life," he later confided.

Driven by such changes in the economy

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

Yet again he contemplated giving up business. An

By November, Rockefeller had capitulated and accepted his resignation.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

All the pent-up frustrations produced by the accelerated change of the late nineteenth century were vented in spontaneous, often violent dissent.

As the years went by

You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.

Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.

I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.

Something Rich and Strange She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of bone. He touched what once had been a hand. The river whispered to him that it would not be long now.

I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.' 'Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller over in Germany looks to be ready to set a match to Europe soon enough, and quick as they snuff him out there'll be another to take his place.

Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.

Sounds come/ to the ear,// transformed.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.