Quotes About Change

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life—as something I have passed, rather than have actually been—and almost think of him as of someone else.

I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.

But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella. It is not much to give to the theme that so long filled my heart.

The loveliest things in life are but shadows; they come and go, and change and fade away…

Such is the difference between yesterday and today. We are all going to the play, or coming home from it.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying.

For my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like on who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.

Anything to vary this detestable monotony.

No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind,

Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.

He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and - there he isn't.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age

large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.