Quotes About Change

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Pere?ii au culoarea cameleonului...

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

becoming French." Meanwhile, as the birth rate of Europe's indigenous population remains stagnant, the newcomers are fruitful and multiplying. Over time, resentment toward them has grown, along with

When a dictator abuses his authority, there is no legal way to stop him. When a free society falters, we still have the ability—through open debate and the selection of new leaders—to remedy those shortcomings. We still have time to pick a better egg. That is democracy's comparative advantage, and it should be recognized and preserved.

Consider all the demands that are placed on government, then factor in the gargantuan changes that have taken place in the past seven decades: the end of colonialism, the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the narrowing of the North–South divide, the revolution in technology, and the increased mobility of people. By any objective standard, democracy—though everywhere tested—has not failed and is not failing. Why, then, do we feel so often that it has and is?

Führer would soon make all things right.

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp") by firing more than 35,000 civil servants.

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp")

Then his face changed to a mask of hate.

We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.

Instead, we prepare for the next jump, then the one after, until after a lifetime of motion is past, we are startled, at least a little, by where we are and by what we have become.

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

I assumed," Ai-ming told me, "that when Big Mother's stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn't true. The stories got longer and longer, and I got smaller and smaller. When I told my grandmother this, she laughed her head off. She said, 'But that's how the world is, isn't it? Or did you think you were bigger than the world?

But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time.

One thing I have learned, dear Sparrow, is that light is never still and solid and so it is with love. Light can be split into many directions. Its nature is to break apart. My

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

It's foolhardy to think that a story ends

What must it feel like, I wondered, to begin again? Would I still be the same person if I woke up in a different language and another existence?

What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She