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Quotes About Change

While some distance from the wide sea, smoke rises from factories and Karl Marx does his usual work.
~ Unknown
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The idea of a revolution through the people was gradually replaced by that of a conspiracy to be planned and carried out by a small and determined minority from the intelligentsia.
~ Isaac Deutscher
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
~ Isaac Marion
Feeling uncomfortable about a situation is oftentimes the indicator that growth is about to take place.
~ Unknown
To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.
~ Unknown
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
~ Isaac Newton
the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a body impinge upon another, and by its force change the motion of the other, that body also (because of the equality of the mutual pressure) will undergo an equal change, in its own motion, towards the contrary part.
~ Isaac Newton
Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
~ Isaac Newton
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
~ Isabel Allende
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.
~ Isabel Allende
El pasado y el futuro eran parte de la misma cosa y la realidad del presente era un caleidoscopio de espejos desordenados, donde todo podía ocurrir.
~ Isabel Allende
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.
~ Unknown
We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny.
~ Unknown
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
~ Isabelle Adjani
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
~ Isabelle Adjani
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
El mundo se dirige hacia la tumba como la noche hacia el alba.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.
~ Isaiah Berlin
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
~ Isak Dinesen
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
~ Isak Dinesen
We must strive to be like the moon
~ Ishmael Beah
But what have Cortes and Pizarro or the others to do with me? You carry them in your blood as I carry the blood of Montezume; expeditions of them are harbored by your heart and your mind carries their supply trains. You've changed your helmet for a frontier hat while I have changed my robes for overalls and a black leather jacket. The costumes may have changed but the blood is still the same, gringo.
~ Ishmael Reed
Yes. You see, it's not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It's nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.
~ Ishmael Reed