Quotes About Change

She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less.

Justine couldn't see herself, but suddenly she felt as though she had a waist, a bosom, a long neck, slim wrists. She felt like a different person.

Ancient virtues may lay for many years dormant. It does not mean that they are dead. We Hobbits need merely discover them, plant them in new soil, tend our little garden with care, and wait with sunlit hope for them to spring leaf and flower again in a new age.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work…that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself….The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.

Leaves fell around me, red and gold stars falling through the mist.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

You could drink hard liquor in the middle of a school day without people assuming you were an alcoholic underachiever. Strange how in America in the 1950s, at the height of its industrial and imperial power, men drank double-martinis for lunch. Now, in its decline, they drank fizzy water. Somewhere something had gone terribly wrong.

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum.

Today's temperatures are about the same as in the 1930s and cooler than a thousand years ago.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries' appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Technology may have changed, but God's truth and the human condition never change, and we see that clearly through the unfolding patterns of Christian history.

Change is not, then, a matter of "magical" thinking or waving a "wand"—it is about pushing ideas, building movements, and challenging the status quo.

There is no magic wand to accomplish change. No one can promise change—he or she can only make it possible. What makes change happen, history and current U.S. politics show, is principled and courageous commitment and integrity.

Biblical hope - that confident expectation of a better future - is rooted in the knowledge of God's justice and faithfulness. Because God is the source and champion of justice, and because God is utterly reliable, there is always hope for positive change.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

If we don't have a plausible plan for making revolution we can be sure that there will be somebody else there who will.

We know that we will never confront the exact same circumstances as previous revolutions. But we should also know that certain problems are persistent ones and that if we can't say what we would have done in the past we should not expect people to think much of our ability to face the future.

Revolutionary situations do not present themselves to us only after we have made perfect preparations for them. They arise suddenly when the old order is unable to maintain its rule.

We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

Now, the tourist hot spots of the city were the very parts that made it like everywhere else. Was it possible to imagine those buildings without inhaling the animal-fat stink of McDonald's or KFC? He never thought London would cease to appeal to him, but the little faded glory it still possessed was being scuffed away by the dead hand of globalization. On his down days he saw London as a crumbling ancient house, slowly collapsing under the weight of its own past.

True surrender is giving up an old way for a new way.