Quotes About Change

to have reached perfection that the seeds of its decay begin to germinate.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

I took some lifelong lessons away from my days of playing chess. The game is very analytical, and you must change your analysis with every single move. I realized that the same lesson applies to life, too—if your course changes a little bit, your strategy must change along with it.

But no one came. My father was safe, and his family was together in a free land. We'd left virtually everything we had behind—our home, furniture, clothes, and possessions. Our lifelong friends, too. We'd left behind the fields we'd lovingly tilled, the fig and cherry trees that I cherished, and the farm animals that were once so important to us. My father had nothing to show for the business that he'd worked so hard to establish and grow.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

Our failures or mistakes give us important feedback on what we need to change or concentrate on in the future.

Wish I never met ya I wouldnt want to be ya.

You aint gotta vote for us cuz we aint neva runnin.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Today we grieve, tomorrow we fight.

Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought to be." ~ Norman Cousins

lying down. Not any more. He was a husband

fares for the ship?' 'I'll see to it,' Joe reassured her. 'And look, if you want Dottie and me to come with you, I'm sure she wouldn't mind. We meant to stay here for the winter but we could easily change our plans. I reckon she'd be all right on the journey now, especially if you were there too.' He

Maybe handling her memory every day for five years had made it fade, like the mortal thing it was.

Hadn't he spoken to the trees? Of course, the entire trailer park and its surroundings might be razed to make way for something even mortal-uglier, the living earth sleeping fitfully under concrete. He might well decide it wasn't worth the effort, or the heartbreak when such careful work was undone.

Concrete arteries brought prosperity, like the historical iron horses galloping from coast to coast over the graves of the indigenous, but they were also digestive pathways, and a whole lot of shit ran off them.

First a howling blizzard woke us, Then the rain came down to soak us, And now before the eye can focus — Crocus.

La forma è sostanza e la forma della nostra democrazia e della nostra convivenza civile, di questi tempi, lascia a desiderare. E a questo punto non c'è più niente da ridere. Il «siamo come voi» va rispedito al mittente. Non siamo affatto così e reclamiamo il diritto a rappresentanti migliori.