Quotes About Change

To-morrow,' cried they, one and all, While no one spoke of yesterday. 20 Their life stood full at blessed noon; I, only I, had passed away: 'To-morrow and to-day,' they cried; I was of yesterday.

She and Jon had been startled and a little frighented by his misery. What happened when you were married, she realized, was that, although you began as two independent people, you eventually grew in certain ways to accommodate your partner's weaknesses and let other parts of you atrophy in deference to his strengths. It was a fine system as long as it endured, but if you extricated yourself from it you couldn't help but be, a least for a time, deformed.

The problem is not that they haven't gone far enough, but that they've brought themselves along.

But it is the repetition, from all walks of life, that slowly destroys, turns the looking-glass into a mirror, distorting or true, both cruel.

The Sweet Spot is about shifting the small gears, the ones that rotate relatively easily. And because all the gears are interlocking, when we tweak a small gear, large gears start to move—effortlessly—as well.

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.

In denominations where pastors are moved to a different church or churches every few years, issues of mobility and fidelity are complex in other ways. Laypeople may hesitate to make deep, long-term commitments when they don't know what the next leadership change will bring.

Une institution présente ne peut être expliquée par le simple fait qu'elle a existé dans le passé, même si ce passé est récent. Je ne nie pas que certains éléments du patriarcat d'aujourd'hui ressemblent à des éléments du « patriarcat » d'il y a cent ans : simplement cette durée - si tant est qu'il y ait durée, c'est-à-dire qu'il s'agisse bien de la même chose - ne constitue pas en elle-même un facteur explicatif. (p. 18)

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Kur njerëzit humbasin spontanitetin, atëherë kanë filluar të plaken.

Cdo gjë ndryshon. Edhe në grahmat e fundit sikur të jesh, duhet të mundohesh t'ia nisësh nga e para. Por ajo që bëhet, nuk mund të zhbëhet më. është njëlloj si uji që, kur e përziejmë me verë, nuk mund ta marrim dot më mbrapsht.

When the First Lady is a he--and the President is me It's a switch--it's a twist--it's a change Still these things would shock most people But I don't really know why, For the world is full of changes--who knows this more than I!

God gives us many chances in this world and I don't believe they're confined to a choice between good and evil, or what people think is right and wrong. Anyway, I believe my choice now is right, because if a change is possible, I will be given a chance to lead a life of greater meaning and dignity. And I think God would probably approve of that!

I didn't want to continue in my present state if there was even the remotest possibility of finding further help, no matter where in the world I would have to go to find it.

Many times, I've been accused of living a masquerade as a female, but if I have not already made it clear I will state again that, in my view, the real masquerade would have been to continue in my former state. That, to me, would have been living the lie.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. —Golda Meir

Vonnegut exposes the assumption that if we do change biologically, we typically think we will end up smarter in the terms in which we consider ourselves smart today. But to survive means only that we'll be smart in the context of the environment we find ourselves in. If we continue to exist, we will by definition be smarter than the versions of us that did not survive, but that intelligence won't necessarily be comparable to what we have today.

History," wrote the researchers, "is always ending today.

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,Don't stop, it'll soon be here.It'll be better than before,Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

What the tide takes away, the tide brings back.

As we head to our last dinner, on a yacht, I am oddly nostalgic for that earlier, more guerrilla Cannes. I wonder if I'd sleep on the floor to get it back.

The serious readers are usually people who have swerved off course in their own first acts—who have gone through major changes in their lives.

It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.