Quotes About Change

If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet

The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.

Why extol the idea of changing one's sex while simultaneously denigrating the idea of changing one's race?

As Gregg Easterbrook points out, "Many environmentalists consider the mere mention of adaptation Ito climate change) heretical because it implies that humanity can overcome global warming rather than be overcome by it, thus shifting the emphasis away from green guilt."37

One is reminded of the adage that whether elephants fight or make love, the grass gets trampled.

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

Change is a difficult task, a dying, a dreaming, an awakening.

The gods and heroes of the old myths fade away and give place to people like ourselves. In Shakespeare we can still have heroes who can see ghosts and talk in magnificent poetry, but by the time we get to Beckett's Waiting for Godot they're speaking prose and have turned into ghosts themselves.

All other statements of intention, however fully documented, are suspect. The poet may change his mind or mood; he may have intended one thing and done another, and then rationalised what he did.

We totter now on a precipice, the ground shaking beneath us. Yet most of us still imagine that the future will resemble the past. That's a whopping mistake. New warning signs look clear and compelling.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.