Quotes About Change

How many new girls will it take to change the world?

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

At the heart of such a view of authenticity is a belief that indigenous cultures cannot change, cannot recreate themselves and still claim to be indigenous. Nor can they be complicated, internally diverse or contradictory. Only the West has that privilege

Imperialism still hurts, still destroys, and is reforming itself constantly

He is a breaker of things and people

and a new dress because her asshole husband had bought an ugly funeral outfit she was stuck in for eternity

Sometimes we can change the direction of our lives, but sometimes we're destined to follow the path we were given.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

And don't forget last year's electrodes, stuck to my leg, the centuries of science reviving one blue foot. Years from now I'll be walking around on plastic legs with a battery-powered heart and silicon eyes, eating imported apricots and flash-frozen chicken hormones. I'll think, again: In an Ice Age cave I'd be dead.

The only fresh meat is the future.

Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

By the time they've gained respect for you, you've lost respect for them.

Eventually, money will optimize itself and everything around it.

Somebody armed with the QQ proof can literally charge the world.

Success begins the very moment when 'I might.' becomes 'I might as well.'.

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time