Quotes About Change

The next morning I learned why our room was called the Far East Suite. It was located in the corner of the Lost Arms that was the farthest east, and so the very first rays of the sunlight came through the shutters and poked me in the eye. "Go play," I told the sunlight. "I'll catch up with you later." The sunlight insisted that I wake up right this very minute, so I sat up in bed and went into the bathroom to wash my face and change my clothes.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I am pretty lonely.

I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now—cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two--a schism or a death, a fire or a mutiny, the loss of a home or the destruction of a tea set.

But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them

Ha csak olyan történeteket szeretsz, amelyek jól végzÅ'dnek, szerencsésebb, ha más olvasmányt választasz.

I never thought I'd live to see the day.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger

I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

A menudo las primeras impresiones son absolutamente equivocadas. Puedes mirar un cuadro por primera vez y que no te guste nada, pero, después de mirarlo un rato, te puede parecer muy agradable

one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

If change is the only constant in the universe, then software change is not only constant but ubiquitous.

12.2 The Basis for the CBAM

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.

It was only a matter of time. The urge to reform the male is something no woman can resist.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

Forever doesn't exist. The concept of it all is just a process, a thought we create to give us confidence in our choices, a promise before the end. Forever is like a blooming cherry blossom, beautiful even after the wind has blown it away from home to settle on the tainted ground below.

Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or make snide little comments under their breath, then they need to be bold enough to say it to my face.

Be as radical as reality.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!