Quotes About Change

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.

It is terrible the way you think time is going to change you. The way you think of some future time when things will be all right. And all that happens is that you drop back into the previous stream of time and it closes over your head.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.

Lo que triunfa no es tanto la nostalgia del pasado cuanto la inquietud por la precariedad del futuro.

Podría decirse pues, con más exactitud, que no vamos de experiencia sexual en experiencia sexual, sino de experiencia amorosa en experiencia amorosa. En cierto sentido, esta turn over [rotación] afectiva concuerda con la lógica de renovación perpetua del hiperconsumo.

Com a psicologização do parecer abre-se o prazer narcísico de se metamorfosear aos olhos dos outros e de si mesmo, de "mudar de pele", de se tornar e de se sentir como uma outra, mudando de toalete.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. ~ Gillian Anderson

dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day.

Something like hope begins, as if times can turn, the world change course. Maybe black-hearted boys in love with death won't blow themselves and us to smithereens, guns fall silent, the powerful cease slaughtering the weak, the rich will not gorge as the poor starve. Maybe good men will again come to power, truth speak, and words have meaning again. - New Moon

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.