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Quotes About Change

The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of the whole of life.
~ Henry R Van Til
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
~ Henry Rollins
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
~ Henry Rollins
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
~ Henry Rollins
I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
~ Henry Rollins
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
~ Henry Rollins
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
~ Henry Rollins
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you
~ Henry Rollins
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
~ Henry Rollins
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
~ Henry Rollins
One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.
~ Henry Rollins
I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
~ Henry Rollins
Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.
~ Henry Rollins
You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything
~ Henry Rollins
I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can't be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.
~ Henry Rollins
He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.
~ Henry Rollins
It's hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.
~ Henry Rollins
Sometimes I feel like going down to the recycling plant. Turning myself in, jumping into the inferno, getting melted down, coming out again as someone else. Scrap metal man.
~ Henry Rollins
I like listening to old music and collecting the odd artifact from those times but I can't just stay in one time period for too long. For me, that's leaning too far back into a couch and recounting war stories to your vet friends because they know what you know. That's basically saying that it's all over and now you're just going to recline ever further into the decaying echo of the past. No way, Fanatic. That's surrender and I can't do it.
~ Henry Rollins
It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
~ Henry Rollins
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
~ Henry Rollins
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.
~ Henry Sidgwick