Quotes About Change

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

Jangan pikirkan lagi masa lalu! Berpalinglah pada masa yang akan datang! Apa yang telah terjadi, sudahlah. Kepahitan tidak akan mengubahnya." - Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, page 93

This river... it's a crossing over Rubicon.

Ça, c'est tout a fait naturelle," said Poirot. "It is the fashion of the moment. They grow out of it.

I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.

It has been a wet day. The wind blew, the rain came down, and the mist was everywhere so that one could not see through it. Eh bien, what is it like now? The mists have rolled away, the sky is clear and up above the stars shine. That is like life, Madame.

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

It was no longer gay

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul.

He listened for a minute or two and then I saw his face change. His own side of the conversation was short and disjointed.

But you can figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?

Miss Maple sighed. 'It seemed wonderful at first—unchanged you know—like stepping back into the past—to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.' She paused. 'But of course, it wasn't really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one 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?

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

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

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

Sopló el viento, llovió a cántaros y la niebla lo envolvió todo. Y bien, ¿qué pasa ahora? La niebla se ha dispersado, el cielo esta claro y allá arriba brillan las estrellas. Es como la vida misma, madame.

It was like a nightmare. He had gone in a brisk, cheerful man. He came out like a drunken one—reeling a little on his feet, and with a queer dazed expression on his face.

Most peculiar, the way people danced nowadays. Flinging themselves about, seeming quite contorted. Oh well, young people must enjoy—

Kematian malah bisa berarti kehidupan yang lebih berarti.

It is curious — but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

La vida, como el tren, hija mía sigue adelante! ¡Y es una suerte que sea así-

Miss Marple sighed. 'It seemed wonderful at first, unchanged you know, like stepping back into the past to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.