CHANGE QUOTES V

quotations about change


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My life changes all the time.
Things were different when you were mine.
You loved me yesterday.
Now these changes have come to stay.

ROY ORBISON
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"Changes"


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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


How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

ELIZABETH LESSER

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow


Things do not change; we change.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden


If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr


Those who object to what is new are controlled by the love of what is old.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Change", Reactions and Other Essays


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


Nothing lasts. That's what makes everything ... so precious.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden


Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

C. J. CHERRYH

Chanur's Legacy


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

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world

DEPECHE MODE

"New Dress"


Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Lathe of Heaven


Many ... are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust that has built up over the years. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith in every country. You more than anyone have the ability to reimagine the world, to remake this world.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, Jun. 4, 2009


We pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

Inconstancy


It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Vague Thoughts on Art


Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS

Fear and Conventionality


All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Parable of the Talents


There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

Smiley's People


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings