Quotes About Change

Time gives his hour-glass Its due reversal. Their hour is gone.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Oh, born in days when wits were fresh and clear,And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;Before this strange disease of modern life,With its sick hurry, its divided aims,Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife.

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

Are ye too changed, ye hills?See, 'tis no foot of unfamiliar menTonight from Oxford up your pathway strays!Here came I often, often, in old days—Thyrsis [Arthur Hugh Clough] and I; we still had Thyrsis then.

Tis the gradual furnace of the world, In whose hot air poor spirits are upcurl'd Until they crumple, or else grow like steel- Which kills in us the bloom, the youth, the spring- Which leaves the fierce necessity to feel, But takes away the power- this can avail, By drying up our joy in everything, To make our former pleasures all seem stale. - Tristram and Iseult

The wheels of life Stand never idle, but go always round. - To the Duke of Wellington

For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls: 'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of the strongest souls, And numb the elastic powers. Till having us'd our nerves with bliss and teen, And tir'd upon a thousand schemes our wit, To the just-pausing Genius we remit Our worn out life, and are -- what we have been. - The Scholar Gipsy

Claire Wolfe: "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

To make a revolution, to be a revolutionary, you have to believe in something. Some new master plan for everybody to obey. But to be a rebel, you don't have to believe in anything. You're just a rebel, and you only want to be free.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

philosophers of difference are, in fact, hyperethical and radical political thinkers, concerned with how movements that seek to address marginalization need to become even more ethical, even more radical in their desire to change the status quo in view of justice.

For the first time since 1856, the Republican Party did not issue a platform.

In the space of four years, Republicans had gone from running the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate to losing all three.

He espoused a Burkean conservatism of adaptation to changing circumstances. "A conservative in government expects such changes in society as time goes by," he wrote in The Conservative Soul (2006). "His job is to accommodate them to existing institutions." But the Right no longer widely practiced this sort of institutionalism.

Populism is the radical opposite of conservatism,

Though their policies may have shared the same spirit, there were serious differences between Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. Coolidge was a model of reticence and comportment. Trump was not. Coolidge stood for the "American" way of doing things and presided over a "normal" government in a "normal" time. Trump stood outside the system, even during the years in which he was president. He and his supporters were not preserving the status quo.

Emerson was right," he told the 1992 Republican National Convention. "We are the country of tomorrow.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself.

Leadership is a process of social influence which works to increase the efforts of others in pursuit of a goal. It happens when people with a vision inspire others to make a change happen despite obstacles.

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.

Only when we discover that the pain of being the way we are is greater than the pain of trying to change will we put forth the effort necessary to make significant progress on our inward journey.