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Quotes About Change

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
~ James Hansen
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
~ James Thurber
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
~ Jimmy Carter
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
~ John F. Kennedy
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
~ John Maynard Keynes
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.
~ Robert Southwell
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
~ Shana Alexander
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
~ Vaclav Havel
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
~ Victor Hugo
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
~ William Cobbett
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
~ William James
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
~ William Shakespeare
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
~ Charles Bukowski
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
~ Charles Dickens
Spring makes everything young again except man.
~ Charles Francis Richter
No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.
~ Confucius
Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
~ Dwight L. Moody
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
~ Evan Esar
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.
~ Gore Vidal
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst