Quotes about Change

“Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.”

“I don't think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I'd like to be considered a playful person to everyone.”

“In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.”

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”

“The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.”

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

“It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.”

“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.”

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

“Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.”

“I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.”

“I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

“A change of scenery can help everything.”

“There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.”

“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

“I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.”

“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”