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Change Quotes — 98 Change Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Dorothy Gale · Judy Garland's Kansas girl in The Wizard of Oz (1939) · Dorothy to her dog Toto as she steps out of the tornado-tossed farmhouse into Technicolor Munchkinland; usually misquoted as "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld · One of the Maxims.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Stanislaw Lec

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

Martin Luther King Jr. · Founders Day address at Spelman College, Atlanta, 10 April 1960.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

William Shakespeare · Paulina in The Winter's Tale.

To innovate is not to reform.

Edmund Burke

War is the teacher, a hard, stern, efficient teacher. War has taught us to make these vast strides forward towards a far more complete equalisation of the parts to be played by men and women in society.

Winston Churchill · Royal Albert Hall, London, 29 September 1943

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

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 May 1911

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

Winston Churchill · Churchill, who changed parties twice, on consistency.

You can't step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

David Sedaris · From Me Talk Pretty One Day.

The unleashed power of the atom bomb has changed everything except our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.

Albert Einstein · From a letter for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, 23 May 1946.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr · The source reads: “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The more things change, the more they are the same.”

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama · Obama on the night of the Super Tuesday primaries, February 2008.

To stand still would be to fall; to fall would be to perish. We must go forward. We will go forward.

Winston Churchill · Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 23 May 1909

The ever-growing complications of civilisation create for us new services which have to be undertaken by the State, and create for us an expansion of the existing services.

Winston Churchill · St. Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, 11 October 1906

What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.

George Herbert · From Herbert's collection of proverbs.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

Change Quotes

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

To innovate is not to reform.

War is the teacher, a hard, stern, efficient teacher. War has taught us to make these vast strides forward towards a far more complete equalisation of the parts to be played by men and women in society.

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

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

You can't step twice into the same river.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

The unleashed power of the atom bomb has changed everything except our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

To stand still would be to fall; to fall would be to perish. We must go forward. We will go forward.

The ever-growing complications of civilisation create for us new services which have to be undertaken by the State, and create for us an expansion of the existing services.

What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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Change Quotes

“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”

“Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”

“What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.”

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“War is the teacher, a hard, stern, efficient teacher. War has taught us to make these vast strides forward towards a far more complete equalisation of the parts to be played by men and women in society.”

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

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

“You can't step twice into the same river.”

“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”

“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”

“The unleashed power of the atom bomb has changed everything except our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.”

“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.”

“To stand still would be to fall; to fall would be to perish. We must go forward. We will go forward.”

“The ever-growing complications of civilisation create for us new services which have to be undertaken by the State, and create for us an expansion of the existing services.”

“What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”

“The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.”

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

Frequently asked questions

We Value Your Opinion Comments

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

To innovate is not to reform.

War is the teacher, a hard, stern, efficient teacher. War has taught us to make these vast strides forward towards a far more complete equalisation of the parts to be played by men and women in society.

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

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

You can't step twice into the same river.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

The unleashed power of the atom bomb has changed everything except our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

To stand still would be to fall; to fall would be to perish. We must go forward. We will go forward.

The ever-growing complications of civilisation create for us new services which have to be undertaken by the State, and create for us an expansion of the existing services.

What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.