Quotes About Change

from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

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On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!

Risero alcuni di quel mutamento, ma egli li lasciava ridere e non vi badava; perché sapeva bene che molte cose buone, su questo mondo, cominciano sempre col muovere il riso in certa gente. Poiché ciechi aveano da essere, meglio valeva che stringessero gli occhi in una smorfia di ilarità, anzi che essere attaccati da qualche male meno attraente.

Fu quella una data memorabile per me, poiché portò a molti mutamenti in me stesso. Avviene la medesima cosa in ogni esistenza. Immaginate un dato giorno distaccato da tutti gli altri, e pensate come avrebbe potuto esserne differente tutto il corso. Fermati, tu che leggi, e rifletti per un istante sulla lunga catena di ferro od oro, di spini o fiori, che non ti avrebbe mai avvinto, se non si fosse formato il primo anello in quell'unica, memorabile giornata.

The day happened to be Sunday, and when I looked on the loveliness around me, and thought how it had grown and changed, and how the little wild flowers had been forming, and the voices of the birds had been strengthening, by day and by night, under the sun and under the stars, while poor I lay burning and tossing on my bed, the mere remembrance of having burned and tossed there, came like a check upon my peace.

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

Ich schwieg und dachte daran, was für ein Aschenputteldasein sieh geführt hatte, bis Mr. Wopsles Großtante endlich die schlechte Gewohnheit aufgab zu leben, die manche Menschen besser ablegen sollten.

The years glide by silently

Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic form; the black silk waistcoat had become more and more developed; inch by inch had the gold watch-chain beneath it disappeared from within the range of Tupman's vision; and gradually had the capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change—admiration of the fair sex was still its ruling passion.

Esse dia foi memorável para mim, pois causou grandes mudanças no meu destino. Mas é assim com todo mundo. Subtraia um determinado dia de sua vida e veja que, sem ele, sua vida teria tomado um rumo diferente. Faça uma pausa por um instante, leitor, e pense na comprida corrente de ferro ou de ouro, de espinhos ou flores, que jamais se lhe estaria ligada, se um certo dia memorável não tivesse formado o primeiro elo dessa corrente.

All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.

The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

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

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together,

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick - but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Dickens

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

non sono vecchio, ma le vie della mia giovinezza non sono state mai di quelle che portano alla vecchiaia