Quotes About Change

That was the hippie age, and truth was in movement and bodies and actions.

What's that got to do with a few gray hairs?" Angelo wanted to know. "Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin' outta himself. She willin' to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets.

He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'.

America was changing at a snail's pace in a high wind, but until that gastropod mollusk reached its destination I had a .45 in my pocket and eyes on all four corners at once.

John Quincy Adams was convinced that Polk's election meant the end of the civilized world

As Halsey looked over his shoulder from his campaigns across the Pacific, "the old battlefields were already disappearing into the jungle or under neat, new buildings. Where 500 men had lost their lives in a night attack a few months before, eighteen men were now playing baseball. Where a Jap pillbox had crouched, a movie projector stood. Where a hand grenade had wiped out a foxhole, a storekeeper was serving cokes. Only the cemeteries were left."20

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.

Thereby, a new set of social relations—that of landlord and serf—replaced the old relations of slavemaster and slave.

Trotsky once wrote that revolution is the carnival of the masses. When we have that carnival in the West Indies, are people like us here at the university going to join the bacchanal?

The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

You remind me at this moment," said the young lady, resuming her lively and indifferent manner, "of the fairy tale, where the man finds all the money which he had carried to market suddenly changed into pieces of slate. I have cried down and ruined your whole stock of complimentary discourse by one unlucky observation.

There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted.

Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that if my quill displays no other properties of its mother-goose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From

Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.

If you wait till you know everything it's too late

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. 

Predicting the long-term economics of companies that operate in fast-changing industries is simply far beyond our perimeter.

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

How are we supposed to live in the future when the future just abandons us to the night?