How Things Have Changed

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

The leopard does not change his spots. - William Shakespeare

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

All is change; all yields its place and goes. - Euripides

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. - Confucius

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

Work and struggle, and never accept an evil that you can change. - Andre Gide

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. - Jessica Mitford

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter. - Susan Salzberg

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

If you're searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror. - Unknown

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them. - Ferdinand Marcos

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. - Steve Martin

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - R Buckminster Fuller

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. - Brene Brown

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato