Quotes About Change

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes.

The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

During each of these previous Third Turnings, Americans felt as if they were drifting toward a cataclysm. And, as it turned out, they were. The 1760s were followed by the American Revolution, the 1850s by Civil War, the 1920s by the Great Depression and World War II. All these Unraveling eras were followed by bone-jarring Crises so monumental that, by their end, American society emerged in a wholly new form.

The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The only long-term, high-confidence strategy for the world not to be overwhelmed by terrorism is for economic development to go so well that terrorists have no place to incubate or hide...Perhaps the easy step is for the United States to give recognition to poor countries that make the needed changes by themselves. Thus part of the U.S. strategy for global economic development should be "inclusion", rather than the "preemption" and "intervention" of the fight against terrorism.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled in celestial light,The glory and the freshness of a dream.It is not now as it hath been of yore—Turn wheresoe'er I may,By night or day,The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The Rainbow comes and goes,And lovely is the Rose.

The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

A power is passing from the earth.

The unimaginable touch of Time.

Me this unchartered freedom tires;I feel the weight of chance desires;My hopes no more must change their name,I long for a repose that ever is the same.

What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once…