Quotes by American Authors - Page 201

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.
Mary Chase
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.
Margaret Collier Graham
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
Grace Murray Hopper
We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.
Betty Shabazz
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
Sonia Johnson
If folks can learn to be racist then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic then dad gum people can learn about gender equality.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
To remain young one must change.
Alexander Chase
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it we have lived by it we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.
James Russell Lowell
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley
Continuity gives us roots change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
Myrtle Reed
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert Maclver
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
Joanne Woodward
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
When you're through changing you're through.
Bruce Barton
Change is the law of life.
John F Kennedy
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Berenice Abbott
Everything changes but change itself.
John F Kennedy
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
Carlene Hatcher Polite
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
Ralph L. Woods
Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman
O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F Kennedy
We change whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.
Hugh Prather
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
Henry Ward Beecher
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot
I've learned only that you never say never.
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Finley Peter Dunne
When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
T.S Eliot
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Vance Bourjaily
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
J. Christopher Herold
Luck is being ready for the chance.
J. Frank Dobie
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.
Anonymous American Lawyer
Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce