Quotes About Change

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. A Muse by these is like a mistress used, This hour she's idolized, the next abused; While their weak heads, like towns unfortified, 'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Ask them the cause; they're wiser still they say; And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day.

With varying vanities, from ev'ry part,   They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100   Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive,   Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished.

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

I've been having chuck steak ever since I've been on the force, and now I'm going to have a bit of tenderloin.

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything

It should not be possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible. The shock is too much, the contrast too raw. We should sail or swim or walk from Africa, letting bits of her drop out of us, and gradually, in this way, assimilate the excesses and liberties of the States in tiny, incremental sips.... p 72

Accept I can't change the past. I can only concentrate on the now and hope for the future.

Dammit, woman, you've been trying to get rid of me since I arrived in Hannibal," he rasped. "Why would you suddenly want me to stay?" She shrugged. "I'm a woman. I'm allowed to change my mind whenever I want, as many times as I want." "Convenient.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don't assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.