Quotes About Change

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status

Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

While Dees was growing up, he had seen that black lives didn't matter, and until they did, there could be no true justice.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

This sad vicissitude of things.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

j'ai songé alors que ce qui est violent, ce n'est pas le temps qui passe, c'est l'effacement des sentiments et des émotions. Comme s'ils n'avaient jamais existé.

You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

My life sucks. So I shave my head.

Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?

she makes a sound with her throat like she's annoyed or going to throw up and then changes it over to a 1990s rock oldies channel.

I could conceive of them as evil, monstrous, and devoid of decency. Or I could think of them as men and sometimes women who are so controlled by their pain, they're unable to care enough about the people they hurt to be able to change their reprehensible behavior.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

En doordat ik met haar ben meegegaan, heb ik gezien hoe haar gezicht veranderde.

La foto è il feticcio che ti dovrebbe riportare indietro il tempo, ma il guadagno coincide con la perdita: in cambio del ricordo di un te stesso precedente ricevi la consapevolezza di ciò che è definitivamente passato, dell'istante che non tornerà mai più mentre ciò che volevi era proprio fermarlo.

Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever.

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back

You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

His life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.