Quotes About Change

Speak of the devil. Luella had wandered in wearing what might once have been a stylish frock, but the hem was shredded from her having torn at it, and the sky-blue fabric was encrusted with food. The bloop of her stomach echoed the bulge of an adult diaper at the rear. Carter had grown accustomed to this decayed incarnation of his father's second wife, but fifteen years earlier the shock had been profound.

You were nice to me for almost ten years," he said gruffly. "Why should that count for nothing just because it's not going to be eleven?

Your honeybunch may not be able to make you feel all warm and gooey inside anymore," Deacon said. "But the ability to fuck you up, well--it's the last magic power to go.

She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present. They're not about the future at all. The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown.

When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER

Don't ever scare me like that again, swinging on the rope." "I won't. I'll find a new way," she teased.

Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.

But you'll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

You'll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

Nur zu bald wirst du diesen Ort, dein Heimatdorf, verlassen. Du wirst durch Schmerz und Feuer und Hunger gehen, und ich kann nicht sagen, wie das Ende aussehen wird. Vielleicht wirst du am Ende nach Palästina kommen oder nach Amerika. Und dort wirst du deinen Kindern Geschichten aus deiner Kindheit erzählen, und sie werden diese Stadt für ebenso exotisch, ebenso fern halten wie Shanghai. Und nur zu bald werdensie fort von dir und in ferne Länder gehen wollen.