Change quotes

Alberti Leon Battista 1404-1472

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Anonymous

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

Anonymous

Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis.
Times change, and we change with them.

Astor Lady 1879-1964

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

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Bevin Ernest 1881-1951

The most conservative man in this world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.

Burke Edmund 1729-1797

Reflections on the Revolution in France

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Carr E.H. 1892-1982

Change is certain, progress is not.

Chersterton G.K. 1874-1936

Orthodoxy

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Clinton Bill (William Jefferson) 1946-

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Dietrich Marlene 1901-1991

(attributed)

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

Hellman Lillian 1907-1984

Toys in the Attic

People change and forget to tell each other.

Jung Carl 1875-1961

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Karr Alphonse 1808 1890

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they are the same.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

Everything changes but change itself.

Lampedusa Prince Giuseppe di 1896-1957

The Leopard

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944

When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Lindbergh Anne Morrow 1906-

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Lucius Cary 1610-1643

Discourses of Infallibility

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

Lyte Henry Francis 1793-1847

„Abide with Me"

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its gliries pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.

Marx Karl 1818-1883

Theses on Feuerbach

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Mill John Stuart 1806-1873

Autobiography

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Milton John 1608-1674

„Lycidas"

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone, and never must return!

Nixon Richard 1913-1994

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

Proverbs and Sayings

Danish

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

„Change" is scientific, „progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

„The Cloud"

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
Shute Evan
Change must be measured from a known base line.

Singer Isaac Bashevis 1904-1991

Writing has power, but its power has no vector.
Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct if.
Time changes things, God changes things, the
dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.