Adrienne Rich Quotes

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Everybody is changing.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

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

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

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.

People change all the time.

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.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

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.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.