Quotes About Change

A clock does not stop at the very moment you lose the key.

Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic

Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.

Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of years gone by?

The solitary man is a modified savage, accepted by civilization. He who wanders most is most alone; hence his continual change of place. To remain anywhere long, suffocated him with the sense of being tamed. He spent his life in moving on.

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.

Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Ali junski pljuskovi nisu ništa. Jedva i primetite, jedan sat posle kakve provale oblaka, da je taj lepi plavi dan plakao.

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.

The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.

Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone.

There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.

Por qué aquella desmesurada carreta ocupaba aquel sitio en la calle? Lo primero para obstruirla, y lo segundo para que se acabara de enmohecer. En el viejo orden social hay también una porción de instituciones que ocupan del mismo modo la vía pública, y que tampoco tienen otras razones para estar en ella.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I.

All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted in his conscience, that all this had been good. What

Rien ne peut arrêter une idée dont l'heure est venue.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain