quotations about change
Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
BILL CLINTON
speech at the Urban League National Convention in San Diego, California, July 27, 1992
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Vague Thoughts on Art
Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are.
DR. MEREDITH GREY
"With You I'm Born Again", Grey's Anatomy
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Everything is the same as always.
PETER WEISS
The Tower
Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls
Cause the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard
U2
"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
River Marked
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
speech, Oct. 29, 1867
Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.
WHISTLER
"Becoming: Part Two", Buffy the Vampire Slayer
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
ANNE RICE
Pandora
The best way to understand something is to try to change it.
JEROME BRUNER
New York Times, June 7, 2016