Quotes About Change

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

Wildlife photographer, photojournalist, war correspondent, paparazzi, even portraitist, but life laughs at the plans we make, and the dreams and ambitions of youth quickly morph into the embarrassing memories of adulthood.

We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives—actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11.

As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no longer reached the thin blond paneling of either wall, I remembered the plush two-story brick home Susan and I had shared in North Atlanta. It was nice. Very nice. But this impoverished place and the fringe existence I was now living here felt more like home.

When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would've imagined I'd become a prison chaplain. But God works in mysterious ways, and when I fell from grace in Atlanta, this is the grace I fell into.

He had been exposed to the new wine of unfamiliar concepts and the old wineskin of tradition and rigid religion was unable to hold it. I had been there many times myself. Soon he would have to make a choice— pour out the new wine or find new wineskins.

The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises. The present system is un-American, anti-American.

With only one proven quarterback in Baltimore, Unitas sensed his chances for success were better there. Thus would the relative fortunes of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts be forever changed.

Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.

Thomas Sowell once wrote, "Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we're all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!).

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

Time is so terribly inconsistent, I find, the way it hurries on or stands still.

Alice in Wonderland was right: you do have to move twice as fast to stay in the same place, and when you're old, you're too slow to do it and so you lose ground. The future vanishes. You can't remember what you should do tomorrow and then you can't remember what you did today. And in the end all you have is long ago.

Long ago, Margaret Mead, the world-famous anthropologist, noted that we should "never underestimate the power of a small group with dedication to change the world; it is, in fact, the only thing that does.

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again

Your story can change. Overnight.

When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That's why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts to go, you'll feel the tear deep in your heart long before your head has the slightest clue what's going on.

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal

Back then the population was 83% white; today the exact opposite is true.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

The words yesterday and tomorrow might have been excised from their vocabulary: for yesterday had entertained nothing that was worth today's speech, and tomorrow could promise no change from today.

I also believed that the Snowden affair marked the end of one of the most confrontational periods in U.S.-Russian history. I thought then that we had hit the bottom and therefore there was nowhere to go but up, though it would take years to climb out of the hole we were in. I was wrong. Things could, and did, get worse.