Quotes About Change

We're not very good as a species at looking into the future. It's much easier to look back at the past. We can edit out the bits we don't like, reinvent ourselves. But there's nothing about the future we can edit or reinvent. Most people are prisoners of the future just as much as they are prisoners of their genes.

He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him.

La mente, una vez expandida, nunca puede volver a sus dimensiones originales».

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes».

glittery illusion where, like the facelifts of fading stars, nothing was permanent.

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.

If you are dead you are totally unable to do anything to change your condition. We are spiritually helpless and hopeless and if our condition is to change, God must do it because we cannot.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change.

None of this is ever going to change until each of us changes. The change has to come from us, and the object of that change is us. We have to change our hearts. And we have to change our minds. We have to stop thinking in terms of stereotypes and deal with people as people. We have to stop thinking in terms of narrow self-interest and begin to reclaim the idea of the common good.

It really is 11:59pm on the "Age of Religions" clock for humankind. It is time to move on.

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

and he told them, “I can see from your fatherís countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

Thus God has taken away your fatherís livestock and given them to me.

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.