Quotes About Change

I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He was a good-looking man, strong and ruddy. When I was little he seemed tall to me, but by the time I was thirteen he had become medium.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

You can never plan the future by the past.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The march of the human mind is slow.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.

The age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

For death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

When one flowers dies, another is born.

Soames, for example, who suddenly broke away after twenty years' teaching and went off to be jokes editor to a firm of matchbox manufacturers.

Heavens, how I detest change! I sometimes think that change, and change alone, is the source of all misery. No doubt Eden was quite static and lethargic.

I'm inclined to think,' said Fen, 'that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There's a choice of evils, but that's all.

Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.

It was like giving a glass of brandy neat to someone who had never been weaned from a milk diet.

It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.

we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the medieval level, as most people in Britain, America, France, and the German lands came to enjoy in the 19th century.

seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.