Quotes About Change

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in surprise, turn their palms up to the sky as if questioning it, and dash for cover.

I know. And I'm Sorry. People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on. I'm offering you a new world.

She would live every day fully. She was not the same girl she'd been nearly a year ago. She would never see things so blithely again. Even now, as Evie watched the parade and the people alight with pride and joy, she knew how easily that same crowd could become angry. The things that divided them. The things that brought them together, too. They couldn't afford to become complacent.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

For all who believe that peace is not an ideal or pipe dream but anecessity. ~Libba Bray They believe, and believing changes everything. ~Gemma, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray Bu the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us forward, into the unknown. ~Circe, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray Stop, gemma, before you go mad. Or am I already there? ~Gemma, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more aruous. ~George Shaw

And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I've never been so happy to see a place in all my sixteen years. Even the gargoyles have lost their fierceness. They are like wayward pets who haven't the sense to come in from the roof and so we let them live there, glaring but cheerful.

Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel beam, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting.

Sam's mother used to say that inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. The professor could have his ghosts. Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery. That was the only magic Sam knew or trusted.

I suppose it's all in how you define patriotism. Some say that's only saying good things about your country. Others say that it's speaking against what you feel is wrong with your country and trying to make a change.

She insisted on Knight for her last name. It made her feel strong and bold. A name of armor. For she would defend herself in this new life.

Nobody's killing any cats." Miss Lillian glowered. "It's what we've always done." "Yeah, well, I'm changing how things are done." Miss Lillian started to protest, but Miss Addie cut her off. "Very well. We could stand to change.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness.

Sam whistled. This is some fancy prison they got you in, Freddy. Or do I call you Sir Frederick now? You call me Jericho. For a change, Jericho said.

The dead became the living until the living became the dead.

Small acts of resistance matter!

It reminds us that even in the midst of chaos and terror, there is the capacity for change.

She was only herself. Her one weapon was her fierce belief that ordinary people could come together and make a better world.

The river is change, and change cannot be stopped. Change, it sings. Change or be lost.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over

But why on earth?" "When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear