Quotes About Change

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

Yo sé bien que la vida da muchas vueltas, pero nunca en una misma dirección.

Además, el tiempo se encarga de acabar con las ridiculeces. Es más, se encarga de acabar con todo.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

Méfie-toi, Artémitch, du confort bureaucratique, C'est de la vase; on s'y noie.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

SAP with its sharp fangs was biting everyone in the behind, for our good, we are told

I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human diet was rather destructive.

I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn't know that it's not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

Before my mother's death, I sat anywhere. Now I look for the image of the empty chair near the image of the empty table. An image of me sits down. Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.

To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

Before this other stone appeared, my mother's stone was still my mother because of the absence around her. The appearance of the new stone and the likeness to her stone implied my mother was a stone too, that my mother was buried under the stone too.

I put a fish ball in my mouth. My optimism covered the whole ball as if the fish had never died, had never been gutted and rolled into a humiliating shape. To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

In my child's homework: Which of the following happens eventually? a) You are born, b) You die, c) A long winter comes to an end, d) Practice makes perfect. I no longer know how to answer this.

But maybe I am wrong, how death is simply death, each slightly different from the next but the final strike all the same. How the skin responds to a wedding dress in the same way it responds to rain.

A pioneering figure in the past, the future was the president of the present. You are sitting. But the future wants your chair. She is demanding.