Quotes About Change

Az életek is úgy repednek meg, ahogy a jég. Személyiségek. Egyéniségek.

Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built

Antes era possível, em geral, dizer a nacionalidade da pessoa pela cara. A imigração acabou com isso. Depois ainda dava para descobrir a nacionalidade pelos sapatos. A globalização acabou com isso.

Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. Those Finnish seal puppies, those German flounders—you don't see them much anymore. Only Nikes, on Basque, on Dutch, on Siberian feet.

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since.

Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.

Inertes exceto quando removidos, batiam as asas com fúria entre nossos dedos e então voavam para se agarrar novamente a qualquer coisa, inertes outra vez

Ölüm, kendini giderek yaÅŸlanan aile bireyleriyle ima eder.

Úgy döntött, hogy nem ragadhat le, élni kell tovább.

If you want to have a career, my advice is don't get married. You think things have changed and there's some kind of gender equality now, that men are different, but I've got news for you. They're not.

Olyannak akarta érezni a világot, mint ahol csak most kezdÅ'dik az élet – holott valójában épp véget érni készült.

On the wall of his living room Billy had painted the words 'Kill the Father.' Killing the father was what, in Billy's opinion, college was all about. Who's your father? he asked Madeleine. Is it Virginia Woolf? Is it Sontag? In my case, Madeleine said, my father really is my father. Then you have to kill him. Who's your father?

Mr. Lisbon continued to go to work in the mornings and the family continued to attend church on Sundays, but that was it. The house receded behind its mists of youth being choked off

Per essere felici bisogna trovare varietà nella ripetizione.

People felt they owned the trees. Their dogs had marked them daily. Their children had used them for home plate. The trees had been there when they'd moved in, and had promised to be there when they moved out. But when the Parks Department came to cut them down, it was clear our trees were not ours but the city's. to do with as it wished.

Expected surprises.

There was no established way for a man to tell his wife he was going to the moon. A man could tell his wife he was going to sea or going to war; men had been doing that for millennia. But the moon? It was a whole new conversation.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right

Moving to something else, whatever else the virtues of that new career path, will rob you of the resources and competence you have built doing what you do.

VT programs had changed a lot in the eight years that Pal Sexton had been lost in another dimension.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

Today, we're a beeper generation in a smartphone world.