Quotes About Change

distrusted the permanent snare for his temporary opinions.

It takes a generation, he says, to reconcile heads and hearts. Englishmen of every shire are wedded to what their nurses told them. They do not like to think too hard, or disturb the plan of the world that exists inside their heads, and they will not accept change unless it puts them in better ease. But new

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes:

We councillors think we are men of vision and learning, we gravely delineate our position, set forth our plans and argue our case far into the night. Then some little girl sweeps through and upsets the candle and sets fire to our sleeve; leaves us slapping ourselves like madmen, trying to save our skin.

His stepson was fourteen years old when he removed his noisy and overgrown presence to

The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

He feels a moment of jealously towards 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

istoria nu este trecutul, ci ceea ce r?mâne în ciur dup? ce veacurile au trecut prin el

I can remember the days,' Mirabeau said, 'when we didn't have public opinion. No one had ever heard of such a thing.

At this signal, the world turns upside down.

You can grow up, not what you would call a person of iron conviction; but you think there are things about you that won't change, beliefs you will always hold, things happening that will go on happening: a world that will do you for as long as you need it. Don't be deceived.

he and the cardinal agree it would be better if Luther had never been born, or better if he had been born more subtle.

Hilary Mantel

Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.

I used to think that fifteen would be nearly grown up," said her sister Naomi, "until you started being it

He's an artist in London. We don't see him much." Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?" "No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.

In today's pick-and-mix culture, evolutionary psychology proposes itself as yet another possible opiate for the people. Freud and Marx are dead – so long live Darwin.

Storm H. D., 1886 - 1961 You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch— the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. You burden the trees with black drops, you swirl and crash— you have broken off a weighted leaf in the wind, it is hurled out, whirls up and sinks, a green stone.

Amerika is wie Föhn, je länger man da ist, um so schlimmer wird's.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.