Change Quotes - Page 119

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

The emotions of the game do not change.

Times have changed and so have heroes and heroines, but the core of what makes readers happy has remained the same: Does the material touch you, resonant with you, stick with you? Do you feel yourself in the pages, see yourself walking in another person's shoes, hear the voices as they speak? Are you in love with the way they are in love?

Everything changes but change

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.