We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
Many try to force the past to change.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
I resist change even as I call for it.
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
Politicians love change, but of details only.
Everything changes as it is written down.
The familiar changes as we cling to it.
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
