Quotes by Authors - Page 196

Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.
Stephen Sondheim
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anaïs Nin
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson
As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.
Florence Nightingale
Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Change is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Christina Baldwin
To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.
Anaïs Nin
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill
The key to change ... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer
Any truth creates a scandal.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Marianne Williamson
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Everett M. Dirksen
When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
Michel de Montaigne
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.
Henry S. Haskins
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
Edward Noyes Westcott
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.
Mark Twain
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
William Allen White
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
Charlotte P. Gilman
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tyron Edwards
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
André Gide
The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
Gerald Jampolsky
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Samuel Butler
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
Mark Twain
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
Winston Churchill
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
Alice Meynell
If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.
Meredith West
I will not change just to court popularity.
Margaret Thatcher
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
Simone de Beauvoir
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams