Quotes about Change
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
— George Bernard Shaw
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
— Anonymous
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
— Thomas Jefferson
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
— Anonymous
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
Think of that — what little things change the world's history...
— Mark Twain
I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.
— Kamala Harris
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
— J. Gresham Machen
Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.
— JM Coetzee
Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.
— JM Coetzee