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Quotes About Change

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
~ Anatole France
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
~ Bernard Baruch
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
~ C. S. Lewis
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
~ Carl Sagan
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.
~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.
~ Clive Tyldesley
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
~ Croesus
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
~ Dolores Huerta
A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
~ E. W. Howe
Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
~ Elizabeth West
A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.
~ Elmore Leonard
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
~ Errol Flynn
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
~ Eugene Field
A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.
~ Frederic Tudor
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
~ Herbert Spencer
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
~ Jim Rohn
Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.
~ John J. McCloy
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
~ Joseph Addison
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
~ Josh Billings