change Quotes

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.