Quotes About Change

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.

Time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength.

Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

Reparen en la higuera, y en los demás árboles: 30 cuando ya empiezan a brotar de sí el fruto, conocen que está cerca el verano. 31 Así también ustedes, al ver el cumplimiento de estas cosas, entiendan que el reino de Dios está cerca. 32 Les empeño mi palabra, que no se acabará esta generación, hasta que todo lo dicho se cumpla. 33 El cielo, y la tierra se mudarán, pero mis palabras no faltarán. 34

Que aquel Jesús Nazareno ha de destruir este lugar, y mudar las tradiciones u observancias que nos dejó ordenadas Moisés.

37 Tampoco echa nadie vino nuevo en cueros viejos: de otra suerte el vino nuevo hará reventar los cueros, y se derramará el vino, y se echarán a perder los cueros; 38 sino que el vino nuevo se debe echar en cueros nuevos, y así ambas cosas se conservan. 39 Del mismo modo, ninguno acostumbrado a beber vino añejo, quiere inmediatamente del nuevo, porque dice: Mejor es el añejo. 6

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

The Hugel story, in many ways, is the story of Alsace. "My grandfather had to change his nationality four times," Johnny's brother André said. Grandfather Emile was born in 1869. He was born French, but two years later, in 1871, Alsace was taken over by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, and he became German. The end of World War I in 1918 made him French again. In 1940, when Alsace was annexed, he was forced to become German.

It's not that people change. People don't change. They merely hide things from you, and lie.

I mean, nothing's really changed, but we've changed.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife across the threads that tied your keepsakes to the things they kept

I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.