Quotes About Change

live by the old saying popular with Californians—"Go with the flow"—though that's exactly what happens to a dead goldfish when you flush it down a toilet.

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER

politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren't building anything to replace it.

I'd been slowly robbed of my sense that I lived in a culture that still valued reason above unreason, civility above rote invective, which had once been the case.

Katie switches it on again and reverses a little beyond the beginning

impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

Just like happy, sad didn't last. There was mostly the place between, so the tears stopped before the weather did.

Technology changes nothing. People were people before and after the steam engine, before and after the airplane. But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not quite now. Walls. That's what it is. The problem is walls.

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

perhaps a sea again, or a jungle, because all things pass.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

I'm Shelly Framington. But call me Sarah. I don't like who Shelly was, what she did.

Sarah seems to be Sarah now, but what will she be two hours from now

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.

Untuk segala sesuatu ada masanya. Ada waktu untuk membunuh dan ada waktu untuk menyembuhkan.

it's likely that Francesca isn't even human anymore

Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.

Although science was never settled and was a perpetual process of discovery that undid past ideas, there were many who adamantly resisted all evidence that didn't support the theories on which they had built their careers.

Henceforth, she will.

If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won't change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

It's really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.