Quotes About Change

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. Already

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

One autumn night, years before, they came to a place where the moonlight stopped and change was among the stars.

Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Pero hubo un cambio en Gatsby que era simplemente incomprensible. Literalmente resplandecía; sin necesidad de palabra o gesto alguno de emoción, un nuevo bienestar irradiaba de él y llenaba la pequeña habitación.

Detesto a la gente descuidada. Por eso me gustas tú. Sus ojos grises entrecerrados debido a la luz miraban hacia el frente, pero de manera deliberada ella había cambiado nuestras relaciones, y por un momento pensé que la amaba.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

Es invariablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos las cosas en las que uno ha gastado su propio poder de adaptación.

He would be a different person henceforward, and in his raw state he had bizarre feelings of what his new self would be.

He read the message again. He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that the earliest and strongest of protections is gone?

We're getting old,' said Daisy. 'If we were young we'd rise and dance.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Q.—Where

we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see.

Ses yeux gris, brûlés de, soleil, restaient fixés sur la route, mais de sa propre initiative elle venait de modifier nos relations, et pendant un moment j'ai cru que je l'aimais.

I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year,' said Tom genially. 'It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun—or wait a minute—it's just the opposite—the sun's getting colder every year.