How Things Have Changed

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

Someday change will be accepted as life itself. - Shirley MacLaine

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. - Francis Picabia

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

If you become a star, you don't change, everyone else does. - Kirk Douglas

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. - Unknown

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

Stay the course, light a star, change the world where'er you are. - Richard Le Gallienne

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. - Jessica Mitford

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. - Unknown

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. - Robert Frost

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor E. Frankl

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. - Muhammad Ali

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. - Lady Astor

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. - Michael Jordan

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness. - Unknown

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. - Zainab Salbi

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. - Marcus Aurelius

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. - Criss Jami