Quotes About Change

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

When you're young, you have way fewer taboo topics, and then as you go through life and you have experiences with people getting cancer and dying and all the things you would have made fun of, then you don't make fun of them anymore. So rebelliousness really is the province of young people—that kind of iconoclasm.

Eventually, television got louder and faster, and closed up the spaces between sentences that used to indicate human thought was going on.

El hecho es que el ordenador está aquí para quedarse y los niños saben utilizarlo y nosotros no. Incluso el lenguaje.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. —DR. ROBERT

That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible. I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.

You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

We all have wanted, at one time or another, to appear as an idealized self. "I'm actually a quite different person," as the playwright Ödön von Horváth wrote, "I just never get around to being him.

The adoption of tastes is driven in part by this social jockeying, this learning and avoidance. But this is not the whole picture. Sometimes tastes change simply because of errors and randomness.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

The beginning of it starts at the end

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

because organizing "anti" is easier than building "pro.

Eerily, the awakening occurred eighteen years to the day from Samuel Morse's "What hath God wrought" message. When Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson changed the nature of the war by marching to threaten Washington, Lincoln responded by changing the nature of his leadership.