Quotes About Change

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Mary Lynn Manns

The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

this vindictive heathen woman was going to be changed to an ardent convert to the Christian faith.

Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.

it is easier to change a decision that hasn't been made.

No dudéis nunca de que un pequeño grupo de ciudadanos comprometidos puede cambiar el mundo. De hecho, es lo único que ha sido capaz de cambiarlo. Margaret Mead

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I am here within your cloak, I who never of my own will would have denied you anything. Time and death and change are unforgiving, and love lost in the time of youth never returns again.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.