Quotes About Change

None of the places where I grew up and live in my youth exist any longer: Tsarskoe Selo, Sevastopol, Kiev, Slepnyovo, Gungerburg (Ust-Narova). The following have survived: Khersones (because it is eternal), Paris - by somebody's oversight, and Petersburg-Leningrad, so that there would be a place to lay my head.

When the past and the present converge to make us who we are today, there is no escaping destiny.

After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.

If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

History in the making is a very uncertain thing.

He was ready to embrace a radiant new world. She was ready to snap his head off.

Throughout all those years, Gabriel had not forgotten Rowena, the beautiful duchesse de Valère. In fact, there were times he imagined his work was in tribute to her, to avenge the wrongs done to her and her family. But that time in his life was over. He was no longer the French Fox. He had a title—the rumors of his knighthood were true—and he had a little land. Now he wanted to share his life with someone—no, not someone—her. Rowena. "It

Especially if what you can't change on your own got you dumped from one home after another.

Vivimos atrapados entre el pasado agitado y examinado, y un futuro que espera nuestro trabajo

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.

At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,

Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed.

But in Potsdam people come up and say'—he puts on a small sorry voice—'"You were right. Capitalism is even worse than you told us it would be. In the GDR you could go out alone at night as a woman! You could leave your apartment door open!"' You didn't need to, I think, they could see inside anyway.

And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their offices would be a museum. A museum!

In August, the Hungarians cut the barbed wire at their border with Austria, creating the first hole in the Eastern Bloc.

Et puis nos certitudes ne tiennent jamais debout. Un jour on voudrait mourir et le lendemain on réalise qu'il suffisait de descendre quelques marches pour trouver le commutateur et y voir un peu plus clair...

It's a hypothesis. History won't take us far enough to confirm it. And our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

On ne peut jamais prévoir. Ni comment les choses vont se dérouler, ni pourquoi des trucs tout simples prennent soudain des proportions démentes.

Mit einem Spatz erwachte Camille Fauque aus einem tiefen Schlaf, es folgten zwei, dann drei, dann ein ganzer Vogelschwarm spöttisch dreinschauender Vögel. Sie hatte seit über einem Jahr nichts mehr gezeichnet.

Our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

M?s vienm?r run?jam par to b?d?m, kuri paliek, bet vai tu jau esi padom?jusi par tiem, kuri aiziet? Par to b?d?m, ar kuriem nelaime atn?k… Palic?ju mums ir ž?l, m?s vi?us mierin?m, bet tos, kuri aiziet? -Bet ko v?l vi?i grib, - es aizsvilos, - kroni? Iedrošinošus v?rdus?!

Tu crois que c'est comme tes mines de crayon ? Tu crois que ça s'use quand on s'en sert ? - De quoi ? -Les sentiments.