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Quotes About Change

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
~ Stephen King
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
~ Stephen Leacock
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
~ Stephen Marche
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
~ Steven Cojocaru
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
~ Ted Shackelford
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
~ Thomas Paine
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
~ Vincent Massey
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
~ Walter Lippmann
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
~ Walter Lippmann
A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
~ William Shakespeare
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
~ William Shakespeare
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
~ Leymah Gbowee
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
~ Paulo Freire
You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
~ Alan Vega
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
~ Albert Camus
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
~ Alexander Lebed
And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
~ Amos Oz
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
~ Amy Richards