Quotes About Change

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

Man has never been the same since God died.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.