Quotes About Change

Vale lembrar que, até a década de 1960, havia uma ideia disseminada de que os indígenas, do jeito que estava sendo conduzida a política de Estado, não chegariam a conhecer o século XXI. Tal ideia estava baseada na visão integracionista, que profetizava que os indígenas aceitariam sua condição de neobrasileiros e passariam a viver uma vida mais apropriada aos princípios da 'civilização'.

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

What keeps me going when I think of ex-friends is that we're all really going through several lifetimes, often at the same time, all with different people; that we draw towards and push away from each other when we have to, like fucking quarks and particles, and sometimes that drawing and the pushing heals, and sometimes it just hurts.

Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday's enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. "The reign of tears is over," Sunday proclaimed. "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

they must create the environment for action. In June 1967 Robert Kennedy said, "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation" (p. 237).

I knew you're a God of love. You're always ready to change your mind about punishing people." -Jonah

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

It was as if single nights had the duration of centuries, so within that time the most profound alterations in the whole of mankind, in the earth itself and the whole solar system could very well have taken place.

Parfois, c'est l'humilité qui commande notre silence. Pas la glorieuse humilité des analystes professionnels, mais la conscience intime, solitaire, presque douloureuse, que cette lecture-ci, que cet auteur-là, viennent, comme on dit, de « changer ma vie » !

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

A nascere sono buoni tutti.. Persino io sono nato! Ma poi bisogna divenire! DIVENIRE! Crescere, aumentare, svilupparsi, ingrossare... (senza gonfiare) accettare mutamenti (ma non mutazioni), maturare (senza avvizzire), evolvere (e valutare), progredire (senza rimbambire), durare (senza vegetare), invecchiare (senza troppo ringiovanire) e morire senza protestare

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

Le lingue evolvono nel senso della pigrizia.

Nous autres les élèves, nous passons, vous, vous restez! Nous sommes libres et vous en avez pris pour perpète. Nous, les mauvais, nous n'allons nulle part mais au moins nous y allons! L'estrade ne sera pas l'enclos minable de notre vie!

À chaque rencontre, on constate qu'une vie s'est épanouie, aussi imprévisible que la forme d'un nuage

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Corporations took our innate impulse toward dissent and our desire for meaningful change, and transmuted them into effective sales tools for their products.

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

Time is a landscape that stretches across all things. We're the ones who move across it.

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

The future had become a fierce, wild creature.