Change Quotes

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is Dare to Differ. Who know's what you'll find ?

~ Matthew Goldfinger

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

~ Sebastian Faulks

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

~ Clare Morgan

We as human beings appear to be in the most adverse stages in our evolution. How can the Mother Earth survive when the souls of Her sons are tainted with avarice, and the very minds which shape Her fate are dominated by ego? Minds that are prone to paranoia and can no longer trust its brothers. Humanity is at a crossroads. A crossroads which speaks of either profound change or ultimate destruction.

~ Chris Cordova

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

~ Gouverneur Morris

If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.

~ Matt L. Rawlins

If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed.

~ Toba Beta

You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.

~ Shamarion Whitaker

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news.The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past.The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past.The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

~ Charles Yu

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he

~ Walter Bower

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

~ Kate Dicamillo

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.

~ B.f. Skinner

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

~ William Nicholson

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.

~ Toba Beta

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew.How impossible it was to know another human being.How impossible to know even oneself.

~ Mary Balogh

I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

~ Ron Hall

History made when mindset changed.

~ Toba Beta

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.

~ Toba Beta

You do not change anything, only need to make difference.

~ Toba Beta

This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

~ Bell Hooks

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

~ Roby James

Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.

~ P.w. Catanese

Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

~ Toba Beta

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

~ Teresa De La Parra

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

~ Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.

~ David W. Earle

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

~ Samuel Beckett

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

~ Jim Rogers

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken.

~ William Least Heat-Moon

[Quoting Miss Harty:]People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they’re telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people ‘Gucci carpetbaggers.

~ John Berendt

Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

~ Suzy Kassem

Crying is like a thundershower for the soul. The air feels so wonderful after the rain. Don’t think too much. Breathe. Don’t be harsh or demanding on yourself. Just experience your feelings and know that your tears are announcing change in your life. Change is coming, like a summer rain — to wash away your pain. Have faith that things are getting better.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.

~ Marcel Proust