Quotes About Change

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Nice little saloon, isn't it I said, as if noticing it for the first time. At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice.

To the destruction of what is.

The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon.

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the August light of abiding memories.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

His hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist.

would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags-rags that wouldfly off at the first good shake.

He feels it himself, and says often that he is 'preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave...' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.

It seems to me that all my life before that momentous day is infinitely remote, a fading memory of light-hearted youth, something on the other side of a shadow.

smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps…At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth…True, by this time it was not a blank space anymore. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery–a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness.

Conrad regarded the formation of a representative government in Russia as unfeasible and foresaw a transition from autocracy to dictatorship.

History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads.

Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

The actors of 1812 have long since left the stage, their personal interests have vanished leaving no trace, and nothing remains of that time but its historic results.

this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

Lord, lay me down as a stone and raise me up as a loaf!

Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak. And as he is, who unwills what he willed, And by new thoughts doth his intention change, So that from his design he quite withdraws

culpar a otros —los inmigrantes y los malos acuerdos comerciales— de nuestros apuros, y especialmente los de quienes sufren a causa de la desindustrialización, la culpa la tenemos nosotros: podríamos haber gestionado mejor la globalización y el proceso de cambio tecnológico, de manera que al perder su empleo la mayoría de los individuos obtuviera uno nuevo en otro frente.

El gradualismo —las escasas modificaciones en nuestro sistema político y económico— es inadecuado para la tarea que tenemos entre manos. Lo que se necesita son cambios drásticos