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Quotes About Change

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
~ Anthony Trollope
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
~ Aristide Briand
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
~ Aristotle
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
~ Arthur Hailey
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
~ Arthur Helps
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
~ Bertrand Russell
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
~ Brian Tracy
I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.
~ Carla Bruni
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
~ Loren Eiseley
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
~ Mark Twain
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
~ Mary Ellen Chase
I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.
~ Miguel Ferrer
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
~ Neil LaBute
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The world makes way for the man with an idea.
~ Orison Swett Marden
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
~ Rafael Sabatini
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
~ James Fitzjames Stephen
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
~ Jonathan Swift
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
~ Jules Verne
It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
~ Kent Haruf