Quotes About Change

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.