Quotes About Change

Why not?" He jumps to sit on the counter. "Maybe this is a summer of second chances." "Second, sure. But after that it gets ridiculous.

Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Do not accept an evil you can change

And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking place to the ground.

They never go anywhere. Ever. Never see anyone. Now while I've been sick, they went everywhere, saw everyone?

Do not accept an evil you can change - Gat

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

we should not accept an evil we can change

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.

Who could help anything? Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old in the new.

Out with the cold, in with the woo.

The course of Logos in world history is dialectic, which means that every successful revolution leads to a civil war.

If women are inhibited sexually by culture, changes in the imagery promoted by the culture will bring about a change in behavior, which will in turn bring about a change in values, which will in turn usher in the revolution

Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

You have taught them to think differently. That is how we beat the bigotry. Class by class. Year by Year

Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong, good or bad. We have little patience for ambiguity or for the unsettling reality that values change over time.

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.