Quotes About Change

When I retired, she told me the problem with retired husbands is that you get twice as much husband but only half as much money. She has a very valid point.

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

Now he was only a short day's ride from the capital and worried about what he would find. Akiko, the elder of his two sisters, had married an official during his absence and moved away, but Yoshiko was still at home. He tried to imagine his mother ill, her fierce strength gone, and

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and are launched in one fell swoop into the rest of your life. It's suddenly up to you, and not your tutors or your parents.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Discuss. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

We know that something went wrong in the country after World War II, for most of our serious pollution problems either began in the postwar years or have greatly worsened since then. —BARRY COMMONER

Stage 1: The Industrial Era, from the early 1800s to 1945, when atmospheric CO2 exceeded the upper limit of Holocene variation; and Stage 2: The Great Acceleration, from 1945 to the present, "when the most rapid and pervasive shift in the human-environment relationship began." (They also—over-optimistically, I'd say—predicted that a third stage, "Stewards of the Earth," would begin in 2015.)

Another basic contradiction of the capitalist system of control is that it cannot separate "advance" from destruction, nor "progress

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

New York used to be the financial capital of the world. It's no longer even the financial capital of the U.S. For the moment, Washington is.

Why isn't everybody the way they were at first? I wonder.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Vida moderna

Compañeros de todo el mundo hombres de carne con vicios y con sueños ha llegado la hora de romper las puertas.63

Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian affirmations. The price it pays, however (together with several twentieth-century novels) is that it eventually leaves the reader, along with its heroine, 'en Vair' amid its self-reflections.