Quotes About Change

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

The pain of growing old lies specifically in the fact that part of us does not grow old.

The new is forever new, but our powers to appreciate it quickly weaken and age. The new is forever the same, but our language for understanding it changes with the shadows. The truth is forever the same, forever new.

Heresy," Hilaire Belloc reminds us, "is the dislocation of some complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. We

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.

I used to do machine language programming in the lights on the front panel of a computer; now I do higher-dimensional type theory. It's a little bit crazy.

All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles the old thinking.The idea, for example, that each particular erasesthe luminous clarity of a general idea.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (Creation, Preservation, Destruction, Quiescence).

Todo el pensar nuevo es acerca de la pérdida.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

The basis of art is change in the universe.

america as much a problem in metaphysics as it is a nation earthly entity an iota in our galaxy an organism that changes even as i examine it fact and fantasy never twice the same so many variables

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.