Quotes About Change

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

The road to infinity may well unravel fresh rules as it goes.

Such as. Do you ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didnt know their history. Yes. How would it differ from when you first met them? That's not it. We're talking about them as they are now. Only with a past unknown to us.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

Sizce o devrin insanlar? daha m? gaddard?? diye sordu memur. Adam sel alt?ndaki kasabaya bak?yordu. Hay?r, dedi. DeÄŸildi. Rabbim ilkini yaratt??? günden beri ayn? insanoÄŸlu.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.

All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction

Nothing is changed. I wish it were a dream and I could wake. I wish I could forget it but I cant. I wish I could be who I was before but I never will be.

People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.

You cant have your ambient reality put askew without becoming somewhat askew yourself.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

I don't know what to tell you, he wrote. Much has changed and yet everything is the same. I am the same. I always will be. I'm writing because there are things that I think you would like to know. I am writing because there are things I dont want to forget. Everything is gone from my life except you. I dont even know what that means.

You ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didn't know their history.

For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.

Let's go. You can sleep in the winter.

Well. Nothin's forever. Some things are. Yeah. Some things are.

You know my sister married a boy from Winston-Salem. And I thought to myself: I really need to get out of this town.

Nothing's forever. It wasnt the sort of news that a cat likes to hear.

The boat is going to Texas. Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been.

I prefer to be hope rather than talk about hope.

Yet an obsession with white racism often comes at the expense of more broadly based alliances to affect social change and borders on tribal mentality.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.