Quotes About Change

So what does one do if one's refuge is in another person? or in an institution? or in a way of thinking? or in family life? or in a political view? or in anything which is subject to change, to birth and death?

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

the urgency of leaders, especially old-school leaders born in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, to respect young leaders and the strategic ways they show up for the fight.

Japan had always had a thriving sex trade, but this was different. Before the war there had been a few streetwalkers in the seamier parts of town, but most of the prostitution was carried on in designated brothels, behind closed doors, with a certain decadent élan. Now, though, there were hordes of women standing around all the major train stations hoping to rent their bodies to some stranger for an hour or two, simply because they could find no other way to support themselves.

The walls were unadorned except for a tattered calendar that stopped at December 1941, when the world changed forever.

It's a mistake to decree that a year's progress must take place within exactly one year, no more and no less.

My brother had always said that. He claimed that when human beings lived past thirty, all they did was become uglier and meaner, so he had no intention of doing so.

But lately tenpura-soba doesn't taste like it used to.

I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her.

We have seen how the Buddhist conception of the universe underwent numerous changes over time. If we view those shifts as changing responses to the problem of human suffering, we can see a steady progression in one direction: Buddhists gradually ceased to regard life as suffering.

And the monkey flips the switch.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States.

A zebra does not change its spots.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Take it from me–elections matter.

Al McGuire to Billy Packer . I saw the first sign of spring in Milwaukee the other day . Packer : What's that ? Al : The curb.