Quotes About Change

Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.

The moment you identify yourself as something, you are already something else.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

I tell you, it's a brand-new world, it's as radical as having an infant. And I'm as clueless. And it turns out there are no operating instructions and no owner's manual that come with a teenager either.

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.

Anyway, I gave her the ring. We were serious at the time. Words were spoken, promises made, unborn children were imagined and named! We were twenty-two years old. We get engaged, everything is fine, and then—well, a decade goes by.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I warmed both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckon—But that day's gone now.They ghosted you up a swell story, too,Called it Bible—But it's dead now.

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Question and Answer Durban, Birmingham, Cape Town, Alabama, Johannesburg, Watts, The earth around Struggling, fighting, Dying--for what? A world to gain. Groping, hoping, Waiting--for what? A world to gain. Dreams kicked asunder, Why not go under? There's a world to gain. But suppose I don't want it, Why take it? To remake it.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?