Quotes About Change

We were all doing exactly what we needed to be doing. What's the point of talking over the pulpit about how a baby changed the world if you're not willing to help be that change yourself?

the reappearance of Flynn Delaney in her world. She couldn't seem to shake the weird feeling that her safe, comfortable world was about to change.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter. Finally he nodded. "One would be a start, I suppose, though I probably could use about a half dozen free passes." "Instead, we have to do our best to live with the consequences of our choices.

a bend in the road is not the end, unless you fail to make the turn.

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That's what life is about, isn't it? We're all works in progress, aren't we, just trying to become a little better every day?

And there went the neighborhood.

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

We can continue to let the past control us. One horrible night we can't change. Or we can take the lessons we learned from it—lessons about courage and resilience and second chances—and embrace a future together.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

El destino es una palabra enorme que desprecié durante mis años de juventud; en cambio, en mis años maduros, la invoco a menudo, he entendido que el destino es el lugar donde está ocurriendo la vida.

Vendrán más años malos y nos harán más ciegos. Vendrán más años ciegos y nos harán más malos. Vendrán más años tristes y nos harán más fríos y nos harán más secos y nos harán más torvos.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

When you say the people you mean, of course, the populace. Will you abolish it? That is the only way to ameliorate its lot, for as long as it remains populace its lot will be damnation.

At least you will admit—you have, in fact, admitted it—that we could not be worse governed than we are?" "That is not the point. The point is should we be better governed if we replaced the present ruling class by another? Without some guarantee of that I should be the last to lift a finger to effect a change. And what guarantees can you give?

I am ready to admit that the present government is execrable, unjust, tyrannical—what you will; but I beg you to look ahead, and to see that the government for which it is aimed at exchanging it may be infinitely worse.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

For twenty years good old Sami has cut my hair, but from day to day he says less and less. I've had enough of his silence. A barber should tell stories better than the radio.

Circusleute und Nomaden sind verwandt. Sie schlagen nie tiefe,, langsam wachsende Wurzeln wie eine Eiche, sondern zauberhafte Luftwurzeln, die in jeder Umgebung eine Heimat finden und sich überall ausbreiten können. Und mit einer nur den Nomaden eigenen Leichtigkeit verlassen sie jeden noch so vertrauten ort wieder, als wären sie nie dagewesen. Sicher tragen sie bei jedem Abschied Wunden davon, doch nie sind die tödlich wie bei einer ausgerissenen Eiche.

they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Do not believe that you can find a universal remedy for evil conditions or immoral practices in effecting a fundamental change in society (as by State Socialism). And do not pin too much faith in legislation. Remedial institutions are apt to fall under control of the enemy and to become instruments of oppression.6

It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.