Quotes About Change

What was needed for the sustained, rapid growth of knowledge was a tradition of criticism. Before the Enlightenment, that was a very rare sort of tradition: usually the whole point of a tradition was to keep things the same.

No city exists in the present tense,' wrote James Stephens, Dublin journalist and poet in 1923, 'it is the only surviving mass-statement of our ancestors, and it changes inversely to its inhabitants. It is old when they are young, and when they grow old it has become amazingly and shiningly young again.

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?" "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

The history of invention is not the history of a necessary future to which we must adapt or die, but rather of failed futures, and of futures firmly fixed in the past.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.

I keep repeating that wherever there is life, there is hope. One day my fate will change.

Playing safe is often the riskiest thing you can do in a career. If you stand still, the odds are overwhelming that the world will leave you behind.

Being transformed also means being unconformed.

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Every time we burn a fossil fuel, we're releasing the energy of sunlight stored millions of years ago.

If God says homosexuality is a sin, why didn't he answer my child's many prayers pleading to be changed? Why does God apparently condemn people for something they were born with and that he won't change for them? For both child and parent, these questions can lead to a crisis of faith.

How long does a building stand before it falls? How long does a contract last? How long will brothers share the inheritance before they quarrel? How long does hatred, for that matter, last? Time after time the river has risen and flooded. The insect leaves the cocoon to live but a minute. How long is the eye able to look at the sun? From the very beginning nothing at all has lasted.

At present, we have a policy-response (to climate change) shaped by sophisticated climate science, brilliant technology and pop behaviourism, based on simple assumptions about carrot-and-stick incentives.

Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

Elle sortit subitement prendre l'air. Je pense souvent à cette expression "prendre l'air". Cela veut dire que l'on va ailleurs, pour le trouver. Cela veut dire littéralement : où je suis, je m'asphyxie.