Quotes About Change

Mas o tempo corre, e as nossas sensações com ele se modificam.

Esta outra independência não tem Sete de Setembro nem campo de Ipiranga; não se fará num dia, mas pausadamente, para sair mais duradoura; não será obra de uma geração nem duas; muitas trabalharão para ela até perfazê-la de todo.

Some died, others were born

Each season of life is an edition, which corrects the previous one, and that will be corrected also, until the definitive edition, that the publisher gives free to the worms.

Tempora mutantur.

As andorinhas vinham agora em sentido contrário, ou não seriam as mesmas. Nós é que éramos os mesmos; ali ficámos, somando as nossas ilusões, os nossos temores, começando já a somar as nossas saudades.

novela à reimpressão que ora se faz parece que explicam as diferenças de composição e de maneira do autor. Se este não lhe daria agora a mesma feição, é

Como eu invejo os que não esqueceram a cor das primeiras calças que vestiram! Eu não atino com a das que enfiei ontem. Juro só que não eram amarelas porque execro essa cor; mas isso mesmo pode ser olvido e confusão.

A leitora, que é minha amiga e abriu este livro com o fim de descansar da cavatina de ontem para a valsa de hoje, quer fechá-lo às pressas, ao ver que beiramos um abismo. Não faça isso, querida; eu mudo de rumo.

come piante novelle, Rinovellate di novelle fronde.

Damn all fixed ideas!

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. No; he is a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Each season of life is an edition that corrects the last and that will be corrected in turn until the definitive edition, which the editor delivers to the worms, free of charge.

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left

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Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes in a state's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.