Quotes About Change

Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

My # 1 fear is the acceleration of days. No such thing supposedly, but I swear I can feel it.

Do not believe that because you are a revolutionary you must feel sad.

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here.

Once sadness was considered one of the deadly sins, but this was later changed to sloth. (Two strikes then.)

My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn't want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

It is during this period that people burn their houses down. At first the flames are beautiful to see. But later when the fog wears off they come back to find only ashes.

The best thing with crazy people, Grandma Win used to say – the only thing, really – is to be somewhere else.

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

A desire for a small government is nothing new, of course. At the end of the nineteenth century, a U.S. government official proposed closing the office of patents. Everything of importance had already been invented, he said.

I dig out some change from my pocket. She takes a careful look at the nickels and dimes. God blesses me anyway.

It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything.

How has she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

There is a heroic tower of folded things on the table. I spot my favorite shirt, my least depressing underwear. I go into the bedroom and change into them. Now I am a brand-new person.

It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything.

Those who live move.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.