Quotes About Change

We like to say "I changed my mind," but the human mind alters its direction so rapidly and constantly, we might as well say "My mind changed me.

sitting still" is just about the worst thing you can do. It's the new "going backward.

you truly want to make some serious changes in your life then you must start by raising your standards.

you are either climbing or sliding or growing and dying.

One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was wrong. Two hundred years ago my great-great-great=great grandfather believed that white men should own black men. He was absolutely certain about that, and I am certain that he was wrong. I'm humble because I don't know what I'm wrong about today. I'll speak with confidence and I'll speak with passion, but I won't speak with certainty.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of.& For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.

It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving.

If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?

The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come.

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.

Nothing's lost forever.

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.

He has grown older, the skin around his eyes is cobwebbed with fine creases, and his hair's thinner, softer, suffused with gray. His brow has grown smoother.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

The gospel comes to the world not like an aircraft seeking an existing landing strip but like a bomb, which creates its own crater when it arrives.

all good things come to an end, and sometimes that's the way you know if they were good to begin with.

I abandon myself to these alleyways tonight content to become someone else