Change

"Sometimes, to make a little bit of change in people’s lives they just need a tent or a little bit of food, a bit of support or a little education."

"J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits."

"For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death."

"Our images/feelings/thoughts have to be conflicted before we see the need for change."

"Nè spegner può per star nell'acqua il foco; Nè può stato mutar per mutar loco."

"Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave."

"Il n'y a rien de changé en France; il n'y a qu'un Français de plus."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Maybe sometimes, we've got it wrong, but it's all right The more things seem to change The more they stay the same [...] Maybe sometimes we feel afraid, but it's all right The more you stay the same The more they seem to change Don't you think it's strange?"

"Never underestimate change. What seems simple at the top is magnified at lower echelons and is extremely disruptive. It is a festering crisis that needs attention from senior management or else loyalty, efficiency, and productivity will suffer."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.… Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

"The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes."

"my slogan is “The Pen is Funnier than the Sword”—which I really believe. I’m committed to non-violent change."

"Captain James T. Kirk: If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial, doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?"

"Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future."

"Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present."

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."

"There has been one constant, as far back as we can understand: The world is always changing."

"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

"Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

"We feel change ... is likely to work against us. ... We do not think we have great ability to predict ... where change is going to lead. We think we have some ability to find businesses where we don't think change is going to be very important. ... we think we know in a general way what the soft drink industry, or the shaving industry, or the candy business is going to look like 10 or 20 years from now."

"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."

"And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."

"Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."

"How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait— Where Beauty watched to imitate."

"I am not now That which I have been."

"Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?"

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

"The world was changing, and it wouldn’t change back."

"Change is the only constant."

"Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind."

"To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope."

"we live in a time when change comes rapidly-a time when much of that change is, at least for long periods, irrevocable. This is what makes our own task so urgent. It is not often that a generation is challenged, as we today are challenged. For what we fail to do-what we let go by default, can perhaps never be done."

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

"It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change."

"Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."

"We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole."

"An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?"

"Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi."

"Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunæque vicissitudines."

"Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse."

"Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum."

"Everyone's changing, I stay the same, I'm A solo cello outside a chorus"

"Still ending, and beginning still."

"On commence par être dupe, On finit par être fripon."

"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast."

"The vibrancy of change permeates the air around all of our nations, human and more-than-human."

"Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant."

"Will change the Pebbles of our puddly thought To Orient Pearls."

"Whole world's changing, even I see that now. Our time... has pretty much passed. They don't want folk like us no more. It's their rules or be damned with you. But I tried in the end... I did."