Quotes About Change

Whenever the Spirit intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of amazing newness; he radically changes persons and history. This

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

But in the real world-in which even academics perish-war often changes everything. The blood-drunk killer is rarely disarmed by the man who lives in books-or by the eternal adolescent clinging to the lie that all men want peace.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

We change, whether we like it or not

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

It is time to be old,To take in sail.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.