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Quotes About Change

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
~ Homer
He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
~ Horace
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
~ Horace
I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
~ Howard Dietz
Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
~ James Altucher
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
~ James Anthony Froude
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
~ James F. Cooper
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
~ James Fitzjames Stephen
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
~ James Hillman
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
~ James Russell Lowell
No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.
~ James Warburg
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
~ Janet Fitch
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very significant.
~ Jeff Orlowski
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
~ Jessica Simpson
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
~ Joan Collins
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
~ John Ashbery
Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
~ John Betjeman
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
~ John F. Kennedy