Change Quotes
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until…
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Tags: Challenges, Change, Science
Posted in H. G. Wells | No Comments »
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
If I was the hot-tempered old autocrat some of you people pretend I am, I should have been tickling you up with a thunderbolt long ago. But I happen to have this democratic fad as badly as any one – Free Will is what
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Tags: Change, Education, Responsibility
Posted in H. G. Wells | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
To seize the sword instead of the olive branch–that is a choice.
To teach children to hate–is a choice.
To glorify murderers as martyrs–is a choice.
To dehumanize and disrespect the dignity of others–is a…
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Tags: Change, Choice, Hope
Posted in Madeleine Albright | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 14th, 2010
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you…
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Tags: Change, Fear, Goals
Posted in Eleanor Roosevelt | 1 Comment »
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
To what use am I to put it? Is it by aiming at a goal? But how to choose such a goal? How know what it is before reaching it?”
“To live without a goal, is to give oneself up to chance.”
“I am afraid you don’t understand. When…
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Tags: Change, Goals, Motivation
Posted in Andre Gide | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 29th, 2010
a Romany saying
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Tags: Change, Goals, Proverb
Posted in Unknown | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
your victim(death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
-electrons deifying one razorblade
into a mountainrange;lenses extend…
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Tags: Change, Limitations
Posted in e. e. Cummings | No Comments »
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
He began at the beginning. He presented himself unannounced in the office of Uncle Leo XII, President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the River Company of the Caribbean, and expressed his willingness…
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Tags: Change, Rebirth
Posted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
…please remember, especially in these times of groupthink and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were…
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Tags: Change, Self Respect, Society
Posted in Alice Walker | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole…
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Tags: Change, Love
Posted in Elizabeth Barrett Browning | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
…And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
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Tags: Change, Heart, Seasons
Posted in Kahlil Gibran | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had…
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Tags: Change, Walden
Posted in Henry David Thoreau | 6 Comments »