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Quotes About Change

But, by the same token, there are also moments that can act as catalysts for peace.
~ Jay Winik
Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
older, I've got a clear space around me I didn't have before. I wonder if that's like a future, or a place where a future will be.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.
~ Jayne Warrilow
Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.
~ Jean Aitchison
A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.
~ JEAN ALTER
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
~ Jean Anouilh
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
~ Jean Anouilh
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past -- and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
~ Jean Anouilh
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
~ Jean Anouilh
first law. In every animal… a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ… while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals… are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise.
~ Jean Baptiste Lamarck
When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We are already more or less disconnected from our history and thus also from its destination. That means, then, that time can slow as it nears its end and that the year 2000, in a certain way, will not take place.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Cinnamon and sugar and a second chance....how could that not be sign?
~ Jean Brashear
They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.
~ Jean Charest
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
~ Jean Chretien
It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
~ Jean Claude Van Damme
Life is a horizontal fall.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
~ Jean Cocteau
Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.
~ Jean Craighead George
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
~ Jean de la Bruyere