Quotes About Change

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

Men will not always die quietly.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.