Quotes
Quotes about Change
Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
We have changed all that.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Nothing is changed in France; there is only one Frenchman more.
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from this place to another.
"Sleep'st thou, O Goddess born! and cans't thou drown thy needful cares, so near a Hostile town? ... Who knows what Hazards thy Delay may bring? Woman's a various and a changeful thing."-Mercury to Aeneas
Popular historical novels falsify the past and simplify the motives which make historical change
So a useless truth obtrudes on to a most ravishing lie. I would say finally that, as the earth turns and the truth of summer and the lie of winter interchange, so the bulky ball of history revolves, and what a man dies for may become the thing that dies for him.
Nature's statements are simple enough: all change is circular
Nothing stayed still. A man changed his lodging, his place of work, his mistress; between man and wife love could die, a man's art or skill grew or languished or merely changed, and all beyond his control
Because you have cast off the troublesome burden of inconvenient belief in eternal and condign punishment you have not thereby changed the divinely ordained reality
Change, change. They have to have change, no matter how strange or bizzare. But why can't God and his angels let things stay as they are?
You have no right to assume that your present present present represents a permanent and unchangeable state
Britain has usually, with the absent-mindedness that acquired her an empire, blazed the major trails of social change
When a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will. When his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years [of mourning] he does not change from the way of his father, he may be called filial.
My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later.
