Quotes About Change

Un empire millénaire venait d'être aboli en notre présence, le monde musulman était en train de connaître un bouleversement majeur, qui allait avoir des conséquences sur toute l'étendue de la planète.

Peut-être même que l'humanité entière aurait suivi une autre voie que celle qui est aujourd'hui la sienne, et qui nous mène tout droit vers le naufrage.

Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.

There are after all, and as Laura said, so many summers.

And what is life without incident? Is such a life even possible?' He took a sip of his water: 'How do we become human except in the face of adversity?

No longer a critic, he was now a rebel,

The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

The white man is in love with the past, with dead things, and soon he will become one.

Childhood is like a mist in so many ways. A mist in which a you is moving to become another you.

The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Anyway, if Calcutta today suffers in comparison, it's not really to other cities, but principally to itself and what it used to be. Anyone who has an idea of what Calcutta once was will find that vanished Calcutta the single most insurmountable obstacle to understanding, or sympathising with, the city today.

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

I am a believer of butterfly effect. A small positive vibration can change the entire cosmos.

One positive thought can change your life, can change the whole world.

I found myself yearning for the time, no, not the time, for the life that has gone by.

It isn't my aim just to make a racket My aim is that things should change

Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.

Because love is tidal; it goes out, it comes in, it goes out.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.