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Bob Dylan4 quotes
For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows. — Bob Dylan · 1965Heraclitus2 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusEverything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCAlan Watts1 quote
Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. — Alan Watts · 1995Alexander Pope1 quote
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope · 1711Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Alphonse Karr1 quote
The more things change, the more they are the same. — Alphonse Karr · 1849Alvin Toffler1 quote
Future shock... The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler · 1970Arundhati Roy1 quote
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Barack Obama1 quote
We are the change that we seek. — Barack Obama · 2008Benjamin Disraeli1 quote
In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1867Edward Gibbon1 quote
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon · 1789Franz Kafka1 quote
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka · 1915G.K. Chesterton1 quote
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Garth Algar1 quote
We fear change. — Garth Algar · 1992Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1 quote
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1957Gloria Steinem1 quote
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the solution. — Gloria Steinem · 1994Jesus1 quote
All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing. — Jesus · 1988Jimmy Carter1 quote
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. — Jimmy Carter · 1977Jonathan Swift1 quote
There is nothing in this World constant, but Inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift · 1711Leo Tolstoy1 quote
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy · 1900Lucretius1 quote
In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life. — Lucretius · 50 BCMartin Luther King, Jr.1 quote
It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1956Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816Pontius Pilate1 quote
It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. You don't want them changed. — Pontius Pilate · 1988Richard Hooker1 quote
Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty. — Richard Hooker · 1593Samuel Johnson1 quote
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. — Samuel Johnson · 1755Stewart Brand1 quote
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. — Stewart Brand · 1987Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1905Washington Irving1 quote
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse... It is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. — Washington Irving · 1824Woodrow Wilson1 quote
There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913