Change Quotes

This limited degree of concern is a reflection of an inner conflict which measures cautiously the impact of any change on the status quo. As the nation passes from opposing extremist behavior to the deeper and more pervasive elements of equality, white America reaffirms its bonds to the status quo. It had contemplated comfortably hugging the shoreline but now fears that the winds of change are blowing it out to sea.

America is still struggling with irresolution and contradictions. It has been sincere and even ardent in welcoming some change. But too quickly apathy and disinterest rise to the surface when the next logical steps are to be taken. Laws are passed in a crisis mood after a Birmingham or a Selma, but no substantial fervor survives the formal signing of legislation. The recording of the law in itself is treated as the reality of the reform.

Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change. The other is in the hands of the white community.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.

The American racial revolution has been a revolution to "get in"rather than to overthrow. We want a share in the American economy, the housing market, the educational system and the social opportunities. This goal itself indicates that a social change in America must be nonviolent.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.

You get to a point in life where things are happening everywhere around you, and your friends are going away and not coming back. Things change.

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I've already gone are going to stay with me.

People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film - after that, they can go away and say that was great, and go back to their problems. I don't want to change the world with our music. There are no hidden messages in our songs, except for some of Brian's.