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Quotes About Change

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
~ Blake Mycoskie
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
~ Desmond Tutu
History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
~ Orson Scott Card
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.
~ Romano Prodi
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
~ Gail Sheehy
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
~ Han Suyin
History is where tensions were.
~ Howard Nemerov
History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.
~ Tod Wodicka
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.
~ Zephyr Teachout
The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.
~ Jerry Falwell
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
~ Joel Garreau
We are at an inflection point in history.
~ Joel Garreau
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'm not sure history has ended.
~ John Bolton
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
~ John C. Maxwell
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
~ John W. Gardner
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.
~ Jonathan Chait
We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
~ John Adams
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
~ Samuel Butler
History is a bucket of ashes.
~ Samuel Butler