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Quotes About Change

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.
~ William Butler Yeats
All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
~ William Butler Yeats
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)
~ William Butler Yeats
Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
~ William Butler Yeats
The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is as though the moon changed every thing - Myself and all that I can hear and see; For when the heavy body has grown weak, There is nothing that can tether the wild mind That, being moonstruck and fantastical, Goes where it fancies. From The King's Threshold
~ William Butler Yeats
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
~ William C. Bryant
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
~ William Carlos Williams
A great future doesn't require a great past.
~ William Chapman
We gather information by many means, but a single spy in the right place and at the right moment may change the course of history.
~ William Christie
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.
~ William Clark
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~ William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
~ William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life.
~ William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.
~ William Cowper
But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
~ William Cowper
Typerien edelläkävijoiden seuraaminen ja molempien silmien ummistaminen on helpompaa kuin ajatteleminen.
~ William Cowper
Sas soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be
~ William Cronon
As soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be.
~ William Cronon
How did things get to be this way?
~ William Cronon
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
~ William Cullen
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.
~ William Cullen Bryant
After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.
~ William Cullen Bryant
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
~ William Cullen Bryant