Quotes About Change

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Let's give the historians something to write about

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

History isn't through with me yet.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

History doesn't have a curfew.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.