Quotes about Change

seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.

Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.

But is has happened, you know. Bear that in mind. Nothing you can do will change it. Time and again, I've found that a good thing to remember.

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.