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Quotes About Change

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
~ Walt Kelly
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
~ Warren Farrell
I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
~ William J. Casey
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
~ William Osler
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
~ Yelawolf
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
~ Jim Lehrer
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
~ John Carroll
Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.
~ John Marston
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
~ John W. Gardner
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
~ Laurence Sterne
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
~ Len Deighton
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
~ Crystal Eastman
Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
~ David Gemmell
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
~ Dorothy Day
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
~ E. W. Howe
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
~ Epicurus
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
~ Eugenie Clark
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
~ Florence King
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche