Quotes About Change

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.

It is curious—but you cannot make a revolution without honest men.

After you've fallen in love with a man and married him and got used to his ways and settled down comfortably—to go and throw it all up and start again! It seems to me madness.

In spite of its new gleaming paint, its alterations, it was in essence a tired old Victorian mansion. "I was wise to go," thought Mrs. Bantry. "Houses are like everything else. There comes a time when they've just had their day. This has had its day.

?ôi khi có m?t v?c th?m ng?n cách quá kh? và t??ng lai. Khi ng??i ta ?ã b??c ?i trong thung l?ng c?a bóng t?i t? th?n r?i thoát ra kh?i, vào trong ánh sáng, ?ó là m?t cu?c s?ng m?i b?t ??u. Quá kh? s? ch?ng giúp ích gì n?a.

Aprendí, aunque supongo que ya lo sabía, que nunca se debe intentar volver atrás, que la esencia de la vida es seguir hacia delante.

Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.

So many noble ideas flowing about. But then, you see, whom have you got to work out the ideas with? After all, only the same human beings you've always had. You can create a third world now, or so everyone thinks, but the third world will have the same people in it as the first world or the second world or whatever names you like to call things. And when you have the same human beings running things, they'll run them the same way.

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

Poirot looked up at the sky. 'When the sun shines you cannot see the moon,' he said. 'But when the sun is gone–ah, when the sun is gone.' Cornelia's mouth fell open. 'I beg your pardon?' 'I was saying, Mademoiselle, that when the sun has gone down, we shall see the moon. That is so, is it not?

Pas encore. Qa m'amuse." "Really, Poirot!" "Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?

A volte si apre un abisso fra il passato e il futuro. Quando una persona si è incamminata nella valle all'ombra della morte, e ne torna fuori alla luce del sole...è allora, mon cher, che comincia una nuova vita. Il passato non serve più.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Aprendí que no se puede dar marcha atrás, que la esencia de la vida es ir hacia adelante. La vida, en realidad, es una calle de sentido único.

But to everything that happens there has to be a past. A past which is by now incorporated in today, but which existed yesterday or last month or last year. The present is nearly always rooted in the past.

can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

Men are like that... They remain boys...

Hi vaig aprendre (suposo que en realitat ho sabia ja) que mai no es pot tornar enrera, que ni tan sols s'ha d'intentar tornar-hi... que l'essència de la vida és anar cap endavant. En realitat, la vida és un camí amb una direcció única, no ho creieu?

England was in a funny state, a different state from what it had been. Or was it really always in the same state? Always underneath the smooth surface there was some black mud. There wasn't clear water down to the pebbles, down to the shells, lying on the bottom of the sea. There was something moving, something sluggish somewhere, something that had to be found, suppressed.

The day of the Old Men is over," said Tommy, waving his hand. "Who caused the war? The Old Men. Who is responsible for the present state of unemployment? The Old Men. Who is responsible for every single rotten thing that has happened? Again I say, the Old Men!

You must be more careful Mademoiselle. He is out of date you comprehend. He just returned from those great clear open spaces, etc., and he has yet to learn the language of nowadays.

Orangnya sama, topinya saja yang berbeda, ...

but you see we've got to lead a queer life together, you and I. It's not going to be the life that you've led and it's not going to be the life that I've led either.