Quotes About Change

Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Hope lies in action

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

she halts, gripped by the intuitive perception that her island has changed.

none of it is quite what it was this time the previous day.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

anachronistic

She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.

What's wrong with writers?" he asked. "A lot of them hate the world and want to change it, build Utopia." "I don't." "Good. Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

until it isn't.

A man's life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.

This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.

You wanted it once. You don't go as far as wanting it and then not wanting it anymore. A man's mind doesn't work that way.

To everything there is a season, A time to kill and a time to heal

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

Two lawmen, one also a teacher. What's happening to the world, Mr. Shepherd? Is it all falling apart?

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

Every period of enlightenment is followed by a new and more efficient barbarism. They preach the necessity of truth even as they flee from it. Some believe in immortality through

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realise that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow were all right. We go on

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.