Quotes About Change

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

The 'belle' had become the 'flirt', the 'flirt' had become the 'baby vamp'.

and beware of trying to classify people too   definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth   they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and   by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are   merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at   you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with   the world. 

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

With the influence of a dress her personality had also undergone a change.

Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken --

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train.

When you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.