John Milton Quotes

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

What is the world coming to?

52 years ago we [Pakistan] started with a beacon of hope and today that beacon is no more and we stand in darkness.

Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

Change takes courage.

People don't like to see instability.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

Uncertainty is the normal state.