Quotes About Change

I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

History's a resource.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.

Man, teachers and cops and their part-time jobs. We do the heavy lifting for society, and we still need OT gigs. Nothing ever changes, does it?" Willoughby

Cain—and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar

CNN. I hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit—it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

How could 1906 and 1966 be part of the same century? In 1906, there had been no world wars, most people didn't have telephones and cars. In 1906, women couldn't vote and black men could by law, but not in practice.

I pushed Liam back, wanting him to fall like I was falling. To feel that instant of confusion, of not being sure where life was leading, but thinking that might be okay.

The new manager wants Tam to 'joosh it up a bit', make it more accessible.

My whole life reminded me of how it felt to ride, when Greenie and I were little, in the back of Greenie's mother's car, an ancient Pacer with a seat that faced backward and left us staring at places we'd already been and drivers who didn't want to make eye contact. I was facing the wrong direction, but time still went forward, gliding toward destinations I couldn't see or choose.

There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis's further suggestion that if we can find "even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not dare to put it beyond the pale.

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

Y sin embargo todo aquello todavía no era la locura, y si lo era, se estaba apenas anunciando.

Every little decision you made, every person you met could change your life, set it on a different course, or end it.

They were better, even angry Honorata. Roza could have been any of them, every one of them. The story hadn't changed. Only the costumes. Only the players.

The rage melted like snow in the sun.

That was his problem, you see, staying in love. When you fall in love as quickly as Gaspare did, when you can be swayed by the merest hint of feeling, the merest hitch in the blood, you can fall out of love just as fast - with places, with jobs, with women.

And Jaime would say, "I am getting ready for my next beginning.