Quotes About Change

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

The life of man is a winter way.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.