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Quotes About Change

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
~ Gary Hamel
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
~ Samuel Johnson
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
~ Shelley Winters
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
~ Horace
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
~ Azar Nafisi
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
~ Gloria Steinem
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
~ Samuel Johnson
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
~ Anita Loos
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
~ William Shakespeare
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.
~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
~ Arsene Houssaye
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
~ Jean Paul
Why is youth so short and age so long?
~ Ouida
Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.
~ Hildegard Knef
It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
~ Amanda Burton
We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people
~ Amit Abraham
if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.
~ Linda Ellerbee
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
~ Cesar Millan