Quotes About Change

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

He felt as empty as a post hole for he was none of the things he once had been. He was a man sitting on a rock. He had crossed over.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. So she put something in there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

Dey gointuh make 'miration 'cause mah love didn't work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

The devouring force of the future leered at him at unexpected moments. Then too his daily self seemed to be wearing thin, and the past seeped thru and mastered him for increasingly longer periods.

Funny thing, he said sitting in Zeke's kitchen with his wife, things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it's dead but de past ain't stopped breathin' yet.

Big talk ain't changin' whut you doin'. You can't clean yo' self wid yo' tongue lak uh cat.

are years that ask questions and years that

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.

Love is lak de sea. It's uh movie' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.

I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

I'm open to going abroad, even though it will be difficult with my son.

I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.

Working abroad made me better.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

I know some players who have played abroad. It was not always easy for them.

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

Nothing is absolute in security.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.