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Quotes About Change

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
~ Walter Lippman
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
~ Rob Bell
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
~ will.i.am
After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
~ Leo Buscaglia
I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.
~ Avi Lewis
Obamaism is the future of America.
~ Jonathan Chait
The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
~ Paul Valery
I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.
~ David Gelernter
willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started
~ David Levithan
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
~ Douglas Adams
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
~ Terry Eagleton
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
~ Arnold Bennett
As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.
~ Ryan Seacrest
You never know what the future brings.
~ Randy Jackson
How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
~ Robert Heilbroner
The future is bought with the present.
~ Samuel Johnson
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.
~ Sarah Dessen
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.
~ William C. Brown
You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In the future history will be made only by us.
~ George W. Bush