Quotes About Change

In the nineteenth century, among other things, they didn't have telephones. You can become the victim of telephones. That's why I hate talking on the phone. Sometimes I put it in the refrigerator.

When you leave New York, you are merely camping out.

A prose-writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

Shredded prose is prose Twisted in heat to occasional rhythms, And broken savagely into irregular lengths, And packed and sold as verse. Yet Our lives and thoughts are prose, With only occasional bursts of rhythmic rapture And with frequent broken jumps of change. And so the prose-shredder Often hits us in more intimate spots Than the versifier, It must be admitted.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum, from lost to found — and sometimes back again.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

The liberal spirit is the breath of liberal democracy. And the liberal spirit is something instantly recognizable but very difficult to define. It has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo... Reform, and constant reform, is a necessity of democracy. But reform in a hurry... is jerry-built, and it blows down in the first storm.

I've been waiting for 7 years for Obama to take my gun and all I got was a job, health insurance and marriage equality.

Medical History & Future. — A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

Life's Unpredictability. — Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

To-morrow — the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

A year from now you may wish you had started today!

White men, whether they are the majority or the minority, must find a way to purge themselves completely of racism, or face an ultimate fateful confrontation which will shake the very foundation of civilization.

Almost everyone, it seems, at first glance expects television to dig radio's final resting place.

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old...