top of page
"The more things change, the more they are the same."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Change quotes

"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."
Explore more quotes by Alphonse Karr

"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers."

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."

"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
bottom of page