Quotes About Change

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate.

Let a god change anything, and there will be reactions of evil as much as good. Only stupidity can be divine.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a result of the diminution of the liberty of women.

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

Every generation needs regeneration.

Evolution: that last step was a doozy!

Those who are horrified at Mr. Darwin's theory, may comfort themselves with the assurance that, if we are descended from the ape, we have not descended so far as to preclude all hope of return.

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest.

Kisses change hue with each lover.