Quotes About Change

In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.

Viajar es nacer y morir a cada instante.

Oui, les brutalités du progrès s'appellent révolutions. Quand elles sont finies, on reconnaît ceci : que le genre humain a été rudoyé, mais qu'il a marché. Le

In six months the little girl had become a young woman; that was all. Nothing is more common than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls bloom in a twinkling, and become roses all at once. Yesterday we left them children, today we find them disturbing. She had not only grown; she had become idealized. As three April days are enough for certain trees to put on a covering of flowers, six months had been enough for her to put on a mantle of beauty. Her April had come.

Per distruggere la parola scritta bastano una torcia e un turco. Per distruggere la parola edificata occorre una rivoluzione sociale, una rivoluzione del globo.

Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

We ourselves respect the past in certain instances and in all cases grant it clemency, provided it consents to being dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack and try to kill it.

Za svakoga od nas ima izvesnih paralelnosti izme?u našeg obrazovanja, naših obi?aja i našeg karaktera, koji stalno napreduju i prekidaju se jedino usled velikih promjena u životu.

Mais soyons justes envers l'aristocratie. Elle a fait équilibre à la royauté; elle a été contrepoids. Elle a fait obstacle au despotisme; elle a été barrière. Remercions-la, et enterrons-la.

She'd lost too much of herself in parenthood to simply go back to who she'd been before.

But I was wrong and stupid. I do love you. I love you and I miss you and I hope to hell I'm not too late because I want to grow old with the man I was young with.

The father who went off to war was not the one who came home.

You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

The landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war.

In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

But he wasn't that man anymore. He had lost too much, and in his loss, he'd thrown more away.

Why was it that pebbles looked like boulders until they were in your rearview mirror?

He also knew that love could freeze over, become a kind of thin ice all its own.

More and more often they talked about the old days, back when they'd been too young to know that they were young, when the whole world had seemed open to them and dreams were as easy to pick as daisies.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction.

The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart.

I don't have a good history with men." "You know the thing about history, Elsa? It's over. Already dead and gone." "They say people who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it.

The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.