Change Quotes

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

G. C. Lichtenberg

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edwards Deming

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Lillian Hellman

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartne

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius Gary

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.

Gene Wolfe

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

Hugh Elliott

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".