Quotes About Change

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

As I come through the garden, Suddenly all birds seem to cease their singing: The tight-curled buds like birds on the branches swinging Silently shrink and harden On the naked trees that were once green fountains springing. And you are not there, not there, not there, Your laughing face and your windblown hair Leave not even a ghost in the garden.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

A stubborn man can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Bizzarro popolo gli italiani. Un giorno 45 milioni di fascisti. Il giorno successivo 45 milioni tra antifascisti e partigiani. Eppure questi 90 milioni di italiani non risultano dai censimenti.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you will find on the pillow.

Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.

Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part

He tried to remember her as a thin little urchin trailing across the fields with Garrick behind her. But that was no use at all. The urchin was gone forever. It was not beauty she had grown overnight but the appeal of youth, which was beauty in its own right.

Everyone, Ross said, seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience? We are not–untender, she said. Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.

With age one never looked far ahead. The marathon horizons of youth narrowed and shortened into hurdles of age.

Le sabbie mobili si stavano muovendo sotto di lui.

It is hard to explain, for 'tis more than a gap. Or it has been with us. There is a change. Nothing hasn't been the same since. Those who are left are different people trying to live the same lives.

Erano stati insieme, la bambina e l'orologio, la ragazza e l'orologio, la donna e l'orologio, attraverso malattie, incubi, fiabe e sogni a occhi aperti, attraverso la monotonia e la meraviglia della vita.

Invece adesso quella stanza, che l'aveva vista diventare adulta, l'avrebbe anche vista avvizzire e sbiadire.