Quotes About Change

It happens so fast, Laina, you don't even realize it's happening. One day, your friends are eating breakfast with you in the canteen, and when it's time for dinner, they're wearing an Imperial uniform.

I don't know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I've traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you're not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you're going and realize that you've been traveling for a long time.

I change from present to past tense and back again, and use an annoying passive voice throughout the whole thing.

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

The difference is a matter of shifts in society . . . and in me. These shifts aren't meant to be an excuse of any kind. I'm happy for the shifts, as it has brought (at least some of) the world to a more enlightened place. A place just a touch freer of bigotry and hatred, including within myself.

life is like a season sometimes happy and sometimes sad.

I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

The branch breaks that will not bend with the wind. You must learn to bend".

But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.

The traditions evolve. Men's faith varies. God endures.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.

Benim en ?iddetli korkular?mdan biri, a?k?n gittikçe daha güçlü bir biçimde tedarik i?lerine kaymas?yd?; öyle ki sonunda geriye sadece tedarik kal?yor, a?k uçup gitmi? oluyordu.

?nsan giysiyi giyer, vücudunda ta??r, ki?inin çözülü?ü bir süreci and?ran biçimde, giysilerin çözülü?üyle ya?am?na intikal eder. ?nsanlar?n y?pranm?? giysilerini atmak için gösterdikleri garip çaba bence, y?pranm?? giysilerin i?aret etti?i çözülü?ün inkar?n?n kan?t?d?r.

Wenn Seufzer die Welt verbessern könnten, sie wäre längst keiner Verbesserung mehr fähig.

es ist leichter, sich in eine fremde Welt zu finden, als sich in einer fremdgewordenen wieder heimisch zu machen!

Das Wunderbare am Menschen ist, daß er wohl derselbe bleibt, aber nicht der gleiche.

Ci separammo nell'età della vita in cui si ha meno tempo per il prossimo. L'odierna facilità degli scambi epistolari, in questo, non aiuta: chi scrive più lettere, nell'era della cartolina? Vedo già tutta la seconda metà del diciottesimo secolo e buon terzo del diciannovesimo scuotere la testa.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.

Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." We avoid excessive worry

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.