Quotes About Change

I'm sorry we haven't been friends. Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. I'm going to be friends from now on. We're all going to do a lot of things from now on, Thomas Hudson said. I wish from now on would start.

Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

You corrupt very easily, he thought. But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with?

Se si sta abbastanza a lungo in una stanza la veduta, qualunque sia, acquista un gran valore e diventa importantissima e nessuno la cambierebbe, nemmeno per una diversa angolazione.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.

As you get older, it's more difficult to have heroes, but it's just as necessary.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Go and be fish again.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we—each one of us, individually—decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be.

You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin," she told him. "Even He can't do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we--each one of us, individually--decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be. --Grant

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Let the world change you and you can change the world

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Rude?os ar skumj?m samierinies.

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

To blame others is an act of cowardice. We blame in an attempt to hide our shame. This is not the way of the warrior. The warrior understands that to blame is not simply an abdication of responsibility but a relinquishing of power. You cannot change what you do not take responsibility for.