Quotes About Change

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

people who always thought, "It's different here." They failed to realize that no government obeys laws. It will change, overrule, ignore, or defy them whenever they get in its way. To count on the law to protect you is a grave mistake.

What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

He knew and accepted for the first time that things would not be different tomorrow. Or ever. Things got different for some people. But for some they did not. There were a lot of things you could do though. One of them was to go nuts trying to pretend things would someday be different.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

have been more recently

could expect to receive $1.50 for a ten-hour day. By 1927 they were earning $4.00 for 8 hours.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Zelfs als morgen de hemel op aarde werd gevestigd, dan nog zou het, door alles wat er gebeurd was in het verleden, niet de hemel kunnen zijn

Tsjallingtsjes strenge gezicht was steeds bereid om van de ene seconde op de andere volledig te verschieten in iets totaal anders, alsof in een donkere kamer het licht werd aangedaan. Misschien was het talent tot lachen eigenlijk wel de ware geest, meer dan het vermogen tot intellectuele krachttoeren.

The process of putting Haarlem behind him resembled the changes a man goes through when he divorces. He takes a girl friend to forget his wife, but just doing that prolongs the connection with the wife. Possibly things will work out only with the next girl friend - although the third one has the best chance. Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, fore everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with the ending.

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.