Joseph Lowery Quotes

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.