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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in our society today This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
We cannot help ourselves.We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.You are forced on exertion.You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
A brave world, Sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.
A state withoutthemeans of some change iswithout the means of its conservation.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things aloneyouleavethemastheyare.But youdonot.If you leaveathing alone you leave ittoa torrent ofchange.
A change is always nice.
Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.
When it isnot necessary to change, it isnecessary not to change.
All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.
If the Russian word 'perestroika' has easily entered the international lexicon, it isduetomorethanjust interest in what isgoing on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.
Si sos gaucho en de veras, no has de mudar, porque andequiera que vayas ira s con tu alma por delante. If you're reallya gaucho, you can't change, because wherever you go, you'llgowith your soul leading theway.
Words are the bugles of social change.
Well, people change and forget to tell each other. Too badcauses so many mistakes.
They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.
Change proves true on the day it is finished.
There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Plus c° a change, plus c'est la me" me chose. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The main business of socialist parties is not to form governments but to change minds.
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary.
Speech is the small change of silence.
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn.
Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique, desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant. No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth isno morethan incipient change froma prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.
It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected andit's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.
Since 'tis nature's law to change, Constancyalone is strange.
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die, For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent: To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory,Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life,Joy, Empire and Victory.
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Life may change, but it may fly not, Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed,but it returneth!
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?
Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
Change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue For the raptures and roses of vice.
Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
'Future shock'the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
That great, growing engine of changetechnology.
It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.
Les gens ne changent pas. Ce sont les choses qui changent. People do not change.Things change.
They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.
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