Quotes About Change

A beleza atrai, e nós não queremos que ninguém seja atraído pelas coisas antigas. Queremos que amem as novas.

Besides, we have our stability to think of. We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

Why don't you give them these books about God? For the same reason as we don't give them Othello; they're old, they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations. Out of the same documents and monuments and works of art, every epoch invents its own Middle Ages, its private China, its patented and copyrighted Hellas.

Rostros todavía lozanos y sonrosados (porque la sensibilidad era un proceso tan rápido que no tenía tiempo de marchitar las mejillas, y sólo afectaba al corazón y el cerebro) se volvían a su paso

We shall all be 'was' one of these days. Meanwhile....

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

Preparation for ultimate death is to be aware that your highest and most intense form of life is accompanied by, and conditional upon, a series of small deaths all the time. We have to be dying to these obsessive memories..

they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world

Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.' 'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world

Free as a bird', we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

Belki de her birimiz, küçücük bir dozu bile bilincimizde köklü deÄŸiÅŸikliklere yol açt??? bilinen maddeleri vücudumuzda üretme yetisine sahibiz.

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. If one is different, one is bound to be lonely. Beauty is attractive and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

Que se ha cansado de ver siempre los mismos colores y se ha vendado los ojos una temporada para olvidarlos y pensar otros nuevos.

El pasado ya no tenía formas ni el futuro nubes.

Antes de ahora tenía una vida y mi violín —dijo, poniéndome la mano en el brazo —. Ahora sólo me queda el violín. Y ahí empezó todo. Empezó Serena.