Quotes
Quotes about Change
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Weep not that the world changesâ did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
We can only change the world by changing men.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."
