Change is the only constant, which does not make it any easier to deal with. These quotes explore transformation — personal, social, political — and the uncomfortable truth that growth almost always requires leaving something familiar behind.
“We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.”
“When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.”
“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“Dynamism is a function of change.”
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.”
“I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.”
“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”
“I love change, I need it.”
“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.”
“I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.”
“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.”
“Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.”
“The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.”