Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was already available, it doesn't change the picture at all.

It was the most dramatic and probably the most important period in his life, and it changed him radically in all sorts of ways,

Havelock Ellis

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

Havelock Ellis

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Gretchen Rubin

The days are long, but the years are short.

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.

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.

Esther Dyson

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Esther Hicks

Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

Esther Hicks

Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.