Quotes About Change

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

The future belongs to the people, and gradually, or in one strike, they will take power, here and in every country.                   The terrible thing is the people need to be educated, and this they cannot do before taking power, only after. They can only learn at the cost of their own mistakes, which will be very serious and will cost many innocent lives.

Bir çiçeÄŸi öldürebilirsiniz ama bahar? asla öldüremezsiniz.

Veremos si algun día, algún minero tome un pico con placer y vaya a envenenar sus pulmones con consciente alegría. Dicen que allá, donde viene la llamarada roja que deslumbra hoy al mundo, es así. Yo no sé.

He will also make use of what he learns as the months or years of the war strengthen his revolutionary convictions, making him more radical as the potency of arms is demonstrated, as the outlook of the inhabitants becomes a part of his spirit and of his own life, and as he understands the justice and the vital necessity of a series of changes, of which the theoretical importance appeared to him before, but devoid of practical urgency.

We won the war , the revolution begins now

This is a revolution not a coup . It is either unconditional surrender or we will take down the garrison

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

Philosophers seek to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it.

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

La conscience morale de l'humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

You can't wait for life to fall into place, sweetie," Bliss said, squeezing Susan's head between her hands. "Don't worry about the direction. Just move.

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return to nothingness, then revert to emptiness. As long as the human mind is not still and quiet, there will be thoughts of desire remaining, which create tremendous obstacles to the cultivation of refinement.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

If I could turn back time If I could find a way I'd take back those words that have hurt you And you'd stay

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. —JACQUES-MARIE-LOUIS MONSABRÉ

All of life's conflicts are between letting go or holding on, opening into the present or clinging to the past, expansion or contraction.