Quotes About Change

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

Every man is a new method.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

No man can be convinced when he will not.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.