Quotes About Change

What, have I been on the wrong road for the past ten years? What, can it be that in a single hour the architect can become convinced that the work into which he has put all his hopes was, if not impossible, then sacriligeous?

Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.

Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years. He had preserved a tolerably good remembrance of what the youth had been, and was now to find out what the man had become.

Un académicien dirait que les soirées du monde sont des collections de fleurs qui attirent papillons inconstants, abeilles affamées et frelons bourdonnants.

The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance.

we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young.

Overturn the world, change its character, yield to mad ideas, be even criminal—but live.

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

No es el árbol el que abandona a la flor, sino la flor la que abandona al árbol.

c'est quand on est au plus bas de la roue que la roue tourne et vous élève

Mas los puntos de vista cambian mucho en la vida, que es una linterna mágica cuyos aspectos altera todos los años el ojo del hombre. De ahí resulta que, del último día de un año que se veía blanco, el primer día de otro que se verá negro, sólo hay el espacio de una noche.

A vida é uma tempestade (...) Um dia você está tomando sol e no dia seguinte o mar te lança contra as rochas. O que faz de você um homem é o que você faz quando a tempestade vem.

a man can only console himself for a lost affection by the discovery of a new one.

Een zee zonder golven is geen zee

The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.