Quotes About Change

The future is happening right here, every day. You can swim or you can drown, but you can't choose not to be in the flood. I suppose the real insight is that it's always been that way.

It's never too late to save something," he said sternly. "Might not be what you wanted, is all.

I expect you'll be wading for the rest of your life," Illyan answered seriously. "But every Komarran who follows you will have less crap to deal with, because of you.

Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.

When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.

One expected the advent of children to rearrange one's future. No one had told Jole that they could also rearrange one's past. It seemed an extraordinary reach to have

Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life? When they have all fallen into dust and rubble?

It wasn't fair, for people to go and change on him, while his back was turned being dead. To change without giving notice, or even asking permission.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Los capitanes vienen y van, pero las administraciones viven eternamente

To a man of a certain age, Cazaril, all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

You shall lie warm here, watching the long lake change its faces, winter to spring, summer to fall. No armies march here, and even the deepest midnights aren't wholly dark. Surely God won't overlook you, in such a spot as this. There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you." He lit the offering. "I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows

I'll lay it out straight, then. I don't like the way things are run around here. Oliver's mouth twisted sardonically; he did not comment aloud. He didn't need to. I'm going to change them, Miles added. Shit, said Oliver, and rolled back over. Starting here and now. After a moment's silence Oliver added, Go away or I'll pound you. Suegar

Miles repented his younger sexual reticence altogether, now. Profoundly. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. And Bel had been beautiful, in its own ironic way, living and moving at ease in a body athletic, healthy, and trim.

Could he stop denying himself, and deny others instead? He tested the phrases on his tongue. No, you are wrong, all of you, Temple and Court and folk in the streets. You always were wrong. I am not…am not… what? And are these the only terms I can think in, these shouted nos? Ah, habit.

I spent a career fighting the powers-that-be. Now I am them. Naturally, I was a little confused.

But you come to the end of yourself, and time runs on, and leaves you. Her years with Tien had

You are what you do. Choose again, and change.

Had getting rid of his uneven limp, leg braces, and most of the crookedness in his back made that much difference? Or was the difference in the Barrayarans?

When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

While motherhood may indeed require a woman who says 'yes', grandmotherhood does not.

How could I have managed to lose my husband, my job, my house, and my ass all in one year?

WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE, You change the world. You change everything Sun, moon, galaxies are created, Your genes are mutated, WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE.

Love changes us, Son. Ray rose to his feet, crossing the room slowly to set his empty glass on the bar. Don't make the same mistake I did, Rowdy. Once it's over that first time, once you've let another man claim what's yours and yours alone, you lose a part of your soul. Getting it back is hell. A hell I hope you never know.