Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robinson Jeffers

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Robinson Jeffers

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Robert Ringer

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

Rebecca West

No great thing happens suddenly.

Rebecca West

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Victoria Woodhull

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

Vernor Vinge

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Vernon Howard

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Richard Bach

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

Robert Frost

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Robert Frost

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Rick Mercer

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Richard Wagner

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Rene Daumal

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Rene Descartes

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

Thomas More

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Thomas More

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

Thomas Hoving

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

Timothy Leary

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Thomas S. Monson

Difficulties allow us to change for the better.

Tim Ferriss

Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

Tiberius

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Sallust

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Ronald Reagan

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

Sam Levenson

Times don't change. Men do.

Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Rumi

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

Rumi

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Rosa Parks

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.