Quotes About Change

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974–1977. The

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The goal of discipleship—giving someone the assistance needed to be conformed into the character image of Christ—will never change, but the methodology will and must.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Oh," every stair creaked faintly, "I ought to have been marble!

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

History is not an escalator.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

The commandment of the Second Technique is: Go where events flow fastest. Surround yourself with a churning mass of people and things happening.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

Until 1943, when Stalingrad and bombing began to change everything, most German civilians save those who lost loved ones found the conflict a numbing presence rather than a trauma.

How can the heart accept the signals of the brain, however powerful and rational, that a known universe, in which the blotter stands where it has always stood on the office desk, the sofa in the lounge of the house, the shop on the corner of the street, is about to disappear for ever?