Quotes About Change

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

What was it all for? Furlong wondered. The work and the constant worry. Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making the deliveries, one after another, the whole day long, then coming home in the dark and trying to wash the black off himself and sitting into a dinner at the table and falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing, yet again. Might things never change or develop into something else, or new?

Maybe the way back will somehow make sense of the coming.

What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?

What was it all for? Furlong wondered. The work and the constant worry. Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making deliveries, one after another, the whole day long, then coming home in the dark and trying to wash the black off himself and sitting into a dinner at the table and falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing, yet again. Might things never change or develop into something else, or new?

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

Enseguida recuperó el control y llegó a la conclusión de que nunca se volvía a lo que había pasado; a cada uno se le daban días y oportunidades que no volvían a tenerse. ¿No era acaso agradable estar donde estabas y dejar que, por una vez, eso te recordara el pasado, a pesar del malestar, en lugar de estar siempre pendiente de la mecánica de los días y los problemas futuros, que tal vez nunca llegasen?

The world exploded into billions of atoms, and when it rearranged itself, it may have looked the same, but really, it was a Whole New World.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.

Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Claire: Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny.

To change yourself means to change the future.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Clara Claiborne Park

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.

He was intrigued now, as when he had first met her, by her apparent lack of interest in him. 'Gertie, Gertie,' he said in humblest tones. 'I treated you badly.' She peered at him rather rudely, as if trying to recollect what he was talking about. 'You were a stage on a journey,' she commented at last. 'Journeys are seldom comfortable.

Yes, that was the unbearable thing: having to go on, after your life has been ripped apart, while you struggle to understand how in a split second the whole world has unbelievably changed.