Sydney J. Harris Quotes

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.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Movement isn't progress.

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

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.

Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

. . . escape is easier than change.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.