Change Quotes

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

...and Lucy. She looked like she might cry.'What about her?'Lucy smells like food. She nearly gagged saying it.'Sol, all that's normal. Lucy smelled good before I turned, and now she smells even better. But I haven't tried to eat her face and neither will you.'She's not safe in this house.'Safer than out there,' I argued, even though I agreed with her. 'Look, you used to eat hamburgers.'She blinked, confused. So?'So, did you ever walk through one of the farms at a field party and suddenly try to eat a cow?'Um, no. Her chuckle was watery but it was better than nothing. And, ew.'Exactly. You can crave blood and not eat your best friend.

~ Alyxandra Harvey

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

~ Bryant Mcgill

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.

~ Stella Oladiran

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

~ Matthew Quick

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

~ Susan Pogorzelski

I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.

~ Hilary Thompson

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

~ Amy L. Orr

Putting into words what exactly was off is not easy. I myself don’t even understand it. It was like a replica of my best friend was sitting in front of me, saying well-rehearsed lines at the wrong cues whilst I struggled to remember my dialogues. It was as if you had talked to me in some other language, a vernacular I used to be fluent in; but now, although the words sounded familiar, I really had no idea what you meant.

~ Jane Finn

I used to think that once we started going out, Derek would change. When I admitted that to Tori, she nearly laughed herself into an aneurysm and gave me a lecture on the stupidity of expecting to change a guy. Maybe I didn’t have her dating experience, but I knew you didn’t go out with someone because you thought you’d change him. That wasn’t what I’d meant. I liked Derek the way he was. I’d just hoped getting closer would mean landing on the sharp side of his tongue less often.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Some people have the innate ability to cheat artfully during dating, interview... Once they're in, they completely change and become different that they leave you wonder whether you have ever met them before.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

~ Edmund Wilson

Letting go of resentment or hurt allows you to take your power back. Forgiveness isn't about saying what happened to you is okay. It is about living your life in the present and letting go of the past.

~ Renee D. Cefalu

Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

~ Kate Elliott

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

~ Kate Elliott

Not once not twice but at least a dozen times i have advanced an idea to people who thought i was either dreaming , imagining the impossible or just in over my head. When the birth of a rare idea lives to see the light of day it is astounding . I have some ideas am now advancing and i am watching closely the discomfort change presents. To achieve different results we have to change how we do things , we must slay lunacy

~ Victor Manan Nyambala

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

~ John Maynard Keynes

The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not? At the fair, do I buy ribbons or wine? For the new ferry’s headboard, do I use camphor or pearwood? Small things. A kiss, a ribbon, a grain that coaxes the knife this way or that. They are not, Kit Meinem of Atyar. Our souls wait for our answer because any answer changes us. This is why I wait to decide what I feel about your bridge. I’m waiting until I know how I will be changed.” “You never know how things will change you,” Kit said. “If you don’t, you have not waited to find out.

~ Kij Johnson

Innovators view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

~ Jason Jennings

Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time

~ David Halberstam

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

~ John Eldredge

Without change there is no gain, but every change brings some pain.

~ Debasish Mridha

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.

~ Debasish Mridha

Wanting to change only the British position at the top of the American social structure, John Adams feared that a rage for innovation would consume what was worthwhile about American culture.

~ John Ferling

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation.Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel.Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world.It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation.

~ Peter Joseph

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice – there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

~ Thomas S. Kuhn

Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the Machine to do the same. Every revolution believes it can return something that had been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that endures are people. Syd saw that clearly now, and perhaps so too did Marie. You could serve a revolution, an idea that ended up an echo if itself, or you could serve people, with their maddening contradictions. You couldn't serve both. You had to choose.

~ Alex London

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble.

~ Théophile Thoré

As long as you're moving, it's easier to steer.

~ Anonymous

If you could go back and change just one thing about your life, would you? and if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? or break the heart of another? would you choose an entirely different path? or would you change just one thing? just one moment. one moment that you always wanted back.

~ Lucas Scott

Most of us humans have no idea how stressful any change is for animals.

~ Colleen M. Flanagan

But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of love? We have been spared all its trouble, and that is why it has slipped in among our distractions, as a piece of real lace will sometimes fall into a child's toy-box and please him and no longer please him, and finally it lies there among the broken and dismembered toys, more wretched than any of them. We have been spoiled by superficial pleasures like dilettantes, and are looked upon as masters. But what if we despised our successes? What if we started from the very outset to learn the task of love, which has always been done for us? What if we went ahead and became beginners, now that much is changing?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

~ Ched Myers

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.

~ Kimberly K. Jones