Quotes About Change

Here's how not to plan a career: (a) split up with girlfriend; (b) junk college; (c) go to work in record shop; (d) stay in record shops for rest of life.

Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.

Women who disapprove of men—and there's plenty to disapprove of—should remember how we started out, and how far we have had to travel. 3.

We spent all those years talking about the stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different, and it broke both of our hearts.

Látod? Te nem lennél képes megváltoztatni mindent, ahogy Jackie. Túl sokszor megtörtént már mindkettÅ'nkkel; egyszer?en csak visszamegyünk a régi barátainkhoz és a régi kocsmákba, abba a régi életünkbe, amelyikben még nem ismertük egymást, és ennyi az egész. Senki még csak észre sem fog venni semmilyen változást, nem igaz?

Merea bertiga harus kehilangan sesuatu dalam rangka untuk memperoleh hal lainnya.

you had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you'd had before and London would give it to you.

Sensitive people find it harder to stick around.

The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.

BUT, alas, the heart forgets; the heart is distracted; and Maytime passes; summer ends; the storms break over the rot-ripe orchards and the heart grows old; while the hours, the days, the months, and the years pile up and pile up, till the mind becomes too crowded, too confused: dust gathers in it; cobwebs multiply; the walls darken and fall into ruin and decay; the memory perishes...

No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person and no other. The person may change from baby to child, and from boy to man, but through all these changes he will remain this person and cannot be another, because all possibilities to the contrary that may have existed before the moment of conception ended forever with the moment of conception.

Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead.

I will lay out a hypothesis – tell a coherent story – that connects energy and evolution.

Every morning, I felt a little excitement as I checked my email, as if part of me believed there would be an unread message - with a beautiful, boldfaced title - waiting in my inbox that would bring me great news or inject energy into my humdrum routine, or, in the highest of hopes, change the course of my prosaic life.

After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.

There were three things that could fundamentally change a person: time, alcohol, and managing a bureaucracy.

En todas las cosas humanas, cuando se examinan de cerca, se demuestra que no pueden apartarse los obstáculos sin que de ellos surjan otros.

Licenció el antiguo ejército y creó uno nuevo; dejó las amistades viejas y se hizo de otras; y así, rodeado por soldados y amigos adictos, pudo construir sobre tales cimientos cuanto edificio quiso; y lo que tanto le había costado adquirir, poco le costó conservar.

She could become anyone she wishes. But how will she know she is still herself?

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.

Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.

Don't you see?" I said. "He could change every detail, but he couldn't change her." "But why?" His obtuseness frustrated me. "Because he was in love with her!" I said. "Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.