Quotes About Change

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.

How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it. Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well

I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

We're no kin," Thomas Hudson said. "We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Do you have bad luck with all games? With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth. Truly? -Truly And what is there to do? -Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change.

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell from the tress and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

Cdo gjë mund të kalohet në këtë botë të mallkuar. Ndrydhi të gjitha ndjenjat, vdis nga brenda dhe cdo gjë do të kaloj lehtë. Vdis për së gjalli, ashtu sic bëjnë më të shumtët e njerëzve, në të shumtën e kohës. Besoj se kjo është rruga më e mire.

You cannot imagine how one can tire of pine trees.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness was filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things

Gradually, then suddenly.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever.

There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it.

My Latin is very beat up," Thomas Hudson said. "Along with my Greek, my English, my head, and my heart. All I know how to speak now is frozen daiquiri. ¿Tú hablas frozen daiquiri tú?

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.