Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"In time and with water, everything changes."
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Things Change
154 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Claude Monet
Painter
"Everything changes, even stone."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is."
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"The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time."
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"Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes."
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"Everything changes when you change."
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"Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change"
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"Observe constantly that all things take place by change."
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"Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on."
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"The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight."
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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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"Everything changes and nothing stands still."
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"Everything changes but change itself."
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"Though things change, the future's still inside of me."
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"I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again."
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"I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner."
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"I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'."
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"Everything changes, nothing is lost."
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"Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do."
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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
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"If you change nothing, nothing changes."
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"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power."
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