Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Horace

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

Horace

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Horace

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

Horace

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

Horace

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Herbie Hancock

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

Herbie Hancock

So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

Herbie Hancock

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Herbert Spencer

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Herman Melville

God's one and only voice is silence.

Henry David Thoreau

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

Henry David Thoreau

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Henry David Thoreau

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Henry David Thoreau

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

Henry David Thoreau

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

H. L. Mencken

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

H. L. Mencken

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

Jessica Lange

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

Jerry Doyle

A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

Jennifer Egan

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Jeff Garcia

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

Jean Rhys

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Jean de La Fontaine

Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

Grover Norquist

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

Graham Chapman

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

Harriet Harman

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Harold Wilson

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.