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Quotes About Change

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.
~ Micky Dolenz
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
~ John Dos Passos
The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
~ Wavy Gravy
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
~ Nicolas Cage
Moving makes you feel all alone inside.
~ Barbara Park
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
~ Leigh Steinberg
There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.
~ Leigh Anne Tuohy
The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.
~ Susan Sontag
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
~ Douglas Coupland
It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.
~ Tupac Shakur
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
~ Tupac Shakur
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~ Joseph Stalin
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
~ Harriet Lerner
All art is made from anger.
~ Lawrence Weiner
Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.
~ Cyndi Lee
My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.
~ Audre Lorde
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
~ Clifford Bax
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
~ Robert South
So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.
~ Richelle Mead
I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.
~ Tony Blair
The river's injury is its shape.
~ Wendell Berry
Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?
~ Wendell Berry