Quotes About Change

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.

slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

I guess this place is where your intellect changes. I guess it's no behavior-modification place. but a history tutor said Harvard used to be . . . worried as much about the students' morality, their character, as . . . exams.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Generating a rapidly changing environment--that is, engaging in actively that is so quick it is disorienting and appears uncertain or ambiguous to the enemy--inhibits the adversary's ability to adapt and causes confusion and disorder that, in turn, causes an adversary to overreact or underreact. Boyd closed the briefing by saying the message is that whoever can handle the quickest rate of change is the one who survives.

Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what's there, sometimes what's there changes you.

Oh stay awhile. sad, sagging flesh and bones gone brittle. Stay in place, aged face, teeth, don't go. Inside and out the flaccid change of bodily parts, mechanics of action, mind's collapsing habits, all echo here in mottled skin, blurred eye, reiterated mumble. Lift to the vacant air some sigh, some sign I'm still inside.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).

The strategy of crisis intervention must then shift to a strategy of development.

Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.

Jean Behra, the French driver, said: "Only those who do not move, do not die; but are they not already dead?

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

But he saw behind the sneers and laughter to a people without hope — people who sensed the earth was changing but could not comprehend it — people who needed something to believe in so much that they believed in death.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

Fall was slipping quietly into winter

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.