Quotes About Change

The past changes a little every time we retell it.

The multitude is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down - for the novelty of the thing.

You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead.

England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist.

He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.

In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.

As for the future, the king's desires move swiftly and the law must run to keep up.

The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.

You have no right to assume that you'll be able to write because you could write yesterday.

You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

Never mind." He thinks, "tomorrow is another battle, tomorrow is another world.

He thinks, tomorrow is another battle, tomorrow is another world.

what's wrong with you? Or what's wrong with me? Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.

This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.

He can see that, in the years ahead, treason will take new and various forms. When the last treason act was made, no one could circulate their words in a printed book or bill, because printed books were not thought of. He feels a moment of jealousy toward the dead, to those who served kings in slower times than these; nowadays the products of some bought or poisoned brain can be disseminated through Europe in a month.

You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.

God knows," Charpentier said, "I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if the conduct of reform falls into hands like yours." "Reform?" Camille said. "I'm not talking about reform. The city will explode this summer.

Once the queen's head is severed, he walks away.

but will also assuage the fears of the king, who distrusts novelty, and German novelty above all.

Will they be the same, my lord?

I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.