Quotes About Change

Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

I fretted myself about the mistakes of government, like other people; but finding myself every day grow more angry, and the government growing no better, I left it to mend itself.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical, physical solutions, not social change.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Some men never recover from education.

Americans, like people everywhere, are in thrall to their visions of the past, rarely realizing the extent to which their understanding of history shapes behavior in the here and now. Historical understanding defines people's very sense of what is thinkable and achievable. As a result, many have lost the ability to imagine a world that is substantially different from and better than what exists today.

By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced by the world of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.

Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.