Quotes About Change

There was no fair way to compare what had been with what might have been. He just had to find a way forward.

Han struggled to remember Master Leontus's lectures on healing, the recitations he'd drowsed through. I'll never have need of that, Han had thought. I'm being trained to kill people, not heal them. He'd thought everyone he'd ever want to heal was already dead. He'd been wrong.

Menurut para pakar, dibutuhkan tiga dasawarsa untuk membentuk satu generasi baru.

Seorang pemimpin tidak berubah karena hukuman. Aku masuk penjara untuk memperjuangkan kemerdekaan, dan aku meninggalkannya dengan tujuan yang sama.

Satu revolusi adalah sebuah rantai panjang, yang menghubungkan penjungkirbalikan yang satu dengan yang lain.

Waktu itu aku tidak mengerti maknanya. Buju itu menceritakan bagaimana daun-daun kayu yang sudah cokelat dan kering harus jatuh untuk memberikan tempat kepada pucuk yang hijau dan baru. Tiga dasawarsa kemudian barulah aku mengerti.

Feodalisme adalah milik masa lalu yang sudah mati, bukan milik Indonesia di masa depan.

Orang kiri adalah mereka yang menghendaki perubahan kekuasaan kapitalis yang ada, orde imperialistis. Keinginan untuk menyebarkan paham keadilan sosial adalah kiri. Dia tak perlu komunistis. Seseorang yang memiliki idealisme seperti itu adalah seorang kiri. Bahkan orang kiri tampak aneh bila bersama orang komunis.

Kami terus melangkah, tetapi perjalanan waktu tidak bisa dihentikan.

Setiap kemajuan menimbulkan lebih banyak sakit kepala.

Seribu orang tua hanya dapat bermimpi, satu anak muda dapat mengubah dunia.

Amerika bersikap toleran pada negara Asia yang terbelakang karena dua alasan. Pertama, kami merupakan pasar yang bagus. Kami membayar kembali dengan memberi bunga. Dan yang kedua, mereka takut kami menjadi komunis. Ia mencoba membeli kesetiaan kami. Ia membagi-bagi hadiah dan banyak, hanya karena ketakutan. Lalu, kalau kami tidak berbuat sesuai yang ia inginkan, ia mencabut kembali pinjaman yang telah diberikan dan memperingatkan "Tak ada lagi pinjaman, kecuali jika kelakuanmu berubah!

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

Christ. How did it happen that in less than a week one small, stubborn redhead had managed to scrape away his insulating calluses, set his lifeblood flowing again, and force him to feel something other than numb?

Keep the faith. And remember, you never know for sure what's around a corner . . . until you take the turn.

How many of us are the same as we were at seventeen? Or even at twenty-five? We learn, we grow, and hopefully become better and wiser women. That's not something to regret. It's something to celebrate.

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?

when you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.

L'utopia storica ha bisogno di volti che la incarnino.