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Quotes About Change

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemptuously dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter. That has been my experience anyhow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm always so sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
~ L.M. Montgomery
EÄŸer kad?nlara oy kullanma hakk? tan?n?rsa, çok yak?nda muhteÅŸem bir deÄŸiÅŸim göreceÄŸimizi söylüyor.
~ L.M. Montgomery
In these ten minutes Rilla passed through a dizzying succession of anger, laughter, contempt, depression and inspiration. Oh, people were—funny! How little they understood.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Crees que está mal que me anime cuando oigo que otras personas han sido malas y traviesas y después han llegado a ser buenas?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Leslie turned herself about passionately.
~ L.M. Montgomery
For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Art?k anlamaya baÅŸlad?m, büyümenin en kötü taraf? bu. Çocukken çok istediÄŸin ÅŸeyler, onlara ulaÅŸt???n zaman o kadar da harika görünmüyor.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh, Mar—Marilla," chattered Anne, "I'll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Do you know, that is a question I often ask myself—If I could would I go back to my old self? —and I can never answer it. I can never dare to say either no or yes. The fruit of the tree of knowledge may leave a bitter taste in the eater's mouth, but there is something in its flavor that can never be forgotten or counterfeited.
~ L.M. Montgomery
But agony is nonetheless real because in later years when we have learned that everything passes, we wonder what we agonized about.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.
~ L.M. Montgomery
many bitter tears when she parted with Maywater chums and the old manse there where her mother had lived and died. She could not contemplate calmly the thought of such another and harder wrench. She COULDN'T leave Glen St. Mary and dear Rainbow Valley and that delicious
~ L.M. Montgomery
It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I hate this war, said Rilla bitterly, as she gazed out into the maple grove that was a chill glory of pink and gold in the winter sunset. Nineteen-fourteen has gone, said Dr. Blythe on New Year's Day. Its sun, which rose fairly, has set in blood. What will nineteen-fifteen bring? Victory! said Susan, for once laconic.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm glad I don't live in yesterday... that tomorrow is still a friend.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Minden reggel újrakezdés, minden reggel új világ.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Art?k gerçekleÅŸmeyen hayaller için yas tutmuyordu.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth, said Katherine one day, does anybody ever die in Harbour Hill? Because it doesn't seem to me it would be any change for them if they did.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.
~ L.M. Montgomery