Quotes About Change

Loyalty to a memory? 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 forced perspective.

General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just coming into Exeter, where he had to change.

If entries in 'Who's Who' were strictly truthful, the entries concerning Lady Stranleigh might have ended as follows: hobbies: getting married. She had floated through life shedding husbands as she went. She had lost three by divorce and one by death.

Burnt corks they use mostly—though 'tis messy getting it off again. Miss Cynthia was a Negress once, and, oh, the trouble she had.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

Even God cannot change the past.

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

I am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do it.

Hélas, la vie calme et tranquille que je m'étais imaginée s'est très vite transformée en enfer.

Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.

Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I grew up with here in Cairo in the Sixties. What difference do a hundred years — or a continent — make?

The face of all the world is changed, I think Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And Egypt?What is Egypt's strength? Her resilience? Her ability to Her ability to absorb people and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true, how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt?

This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.

What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt? As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.

The whole world desperately needs a French revolution, immediately.

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

Life is just a jorney between Delete and Recycle Bin !!

A woman gets into a relationship hoping to change the man. A man gets into a relationship hoping that the woman doesn't change. Both realize how gravely mistaken they are

Action is the crux to which all change is possible making any goal achievable

Just like water in an aquarium, a mind left to stagnate brings forth death to whichever life that dwells within it

People aren't helpless because they want to be helpless. People are helpless because it's all they know.

The mind, unlike a box, cannot simply filled whatever that you wish and then remove it once you decide it's a hazard leaving it unscathed. Rather, it's like a living being and what you put inside it gets ingested and assimilated. It becomes a part of it and to remove it takes a tremendous amount of consistent work and dedication only to realize that it was best not to have taken whatever it is in to begin with.