Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has” is credited to Margaret Mead and marked disputed. No source from her own time is known. Ralph Keyes, in The Quote Verifier (2006), uses it as an example of how this happens: later books cite each other, and nobody knows where it started.
The sourced entries are more reliable. Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach (1845): “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” Lampedusa, in Il Gattopardo (1958): “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock (1970), went further: change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher?
With what knot shall I hold this Proteus, who so often changes his countenance?
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles.
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."