Quotes About Change

These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

Holmes had returned entirely to his old self – secretive, over-confident and thoroughly annoying.

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

Routine was going to kill Michael J. Roscoe and this was the day death had chosen to come calling. Of

It's easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.

Gordon Brown ran this bloody country into the ground and the new lot don't have a clue. So everyone's tightening their belts and people like me are the first out the door.

subverting the status quo again.

The unsigned will is one of those tropes of detective fiction that I've come to dislike, only because it's so overused. In real life, a lot of people don't even bother to make a will but then we've all managed to persuade ourselves that we're going to live for ever. They certainly don't go round the place threatening to change it in order to give someone the perfect excuse to come and kill them. It looked as if Alan Conway had done exactly that.

Well, you know, it's been one of those years." It always was, where Michael was concerned. He'd turned gloom into an art form.

Isn't that how marriage works? The days go by and you settle into a routine and piece by piece everything is taken away from you until there are two complete strangers sitting in the same room.

handsome as a child but something had happened to him at some time in his life so that, although he still wasn't ugly, he was curiously unattractive. It was as if he had become a bad photograph of himself.

I look on my divorce as a cleansing process. The water runs foul only when you step into the shower.' 'I'm sure.

was in his mid-thirties, with the easy confidence that comes from either inherited wealth or early success, a completely different man to the one I had met in Euston. Could it be that he changed his persona depending on the client he found himself with, that the richer and more established they were, the more suave and self-confident he became?

I don't mean to be unkind. I liked her. She was young and charismatic and she had allowed her life to be stolen away from her. Although she never said as much, it was clear that Damian's death would give her a chance to start again.

And why would three old university friends who only saw each other occasionally for adventure holidays have suddenly come to blows?

It's like that poem Larkin wrote. "I have started to say 'A quarter of a century'/ Or 'thirty years back' /About my own life/It makes me breathless…

sometimes when ambitions burn out they do so gently.

of those clothes.

His uncle, Ian Rider, had taken him on a tour of the Greek islands when he was nine years old and he couldn't help being reminded of it. It was as if nothing had changed. Except, of course, that he was now working for MI6, he was using a false name, his new best friend was a psychotic killer and he had less than a week to stop London from being destroyed.

This is 1955, for heaven's sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn't help having the bloody Tories still in power but you'd have thought we'd have moved away from the days when people were given wealth and power simply because of an accident of birth.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'AngeloRealize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.