Quotes About Change

My task is changed: not to uphold the law, or another law, but to maintain the skin that keeps law in place. Two laws in two places, in fact.

On the hill we used a different, vaguer calendar than the one I've since learned. The seasons ours described—summer, dimming, and winter—were suited to a different place: the mountain had two seasons at most.

Godspit and shit, Jack, don't start with 'the limits of individual action' right now. I'm just tired. Sometimes, don't you sometimes wish you didn't care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care." Fishday

I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour—as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.

Sometimes, don't you sometimes wish you didn't care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care.

Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all. It would be equally absurd to say that there is nothing we can learn from the revolution. To deny that the sumerki of October can be ours, and that it need not always be followed by night.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

It's shocking how fast a whole city can be made to change. Trade, all the moments and minutiae of exchange: knowledge, services, goods, promises and extras. Our culture. The way we lived. All of those things had to be fixed.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

May you always live in interesting times.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald

Rotten wood cannot be carved