Quotes about Change
You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
— Vincent Van Gogh
So I think there must be more animation, and we must throw all doubts overboard, and also a certain lack of confidence. Do you want a motive for keeping one's serenity even when one is isolated and misunderstood, and has lost all chance for material happiness? This one thing remains - faith; one feels instinctively that an enormous number of things are changing and that everything will change. We are living in the last quarter of a century that will end again in a tremendous revolution.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
— Virginia Woolf
I am rooted, but I flow.
— Virginia Woolf
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
— WP Kinsella
I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
— WP Kinsella
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
— Muhammad Ali
Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.
— J. Vernon McGee
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
— Bill Gates
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.
— Erwin McManus
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
— Charles Dickens
Change of any sort requires courage.
— Mary Anne Radmacher