Quotes About Change

cuantas veces deseara, siempre que fuera en ausencia de Bernat, lo que, atendidas sus obligaciones, sucedía con mucha frecuencia. —Y eso también cambiará —le aseguró Mercè. —No.

Hay cosas que nos hacen envejecer más que el trascurso de los años...

Ellos mantendrían encendida la llama de la esperanza para un pueblo maltratado; un débil fuego, ciertamente, pero ¿no empezaban los grandes incendios por la más nimia de las chispas?

The new atheism has attracted considerable attention today, but apart from the public hype, it offers no substantial change or direction to modernity's problems. Religion may be the opium of the masses but atheism offers no new yeast as leaven for the masses.

But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political conflict and an increase in violence and aggression.

Leben ist angewandte Unsicherheit.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.

Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes," said Jess.

Best you shake the dust off your sandals, girl," Jess said. "The past is past

A word of advice, sweetheart: when you're at the brink; when it's a choice between what's safe and what might be better, even if what's best is also scary, take a chance, honey.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.

Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

The main character of any living system is openness.

Each society, as I've written elsewhere, betrays its own characteristic "time bias"—the degree to which it places emphasis on past, present, or future. One lives in the past. Another may be obsessed with the future.

Nature is change, the continual elaboration of the new, a totality being created in an essentially open process of development without any preestablished model. "Life progresses and endures in time."16 The only part of this progression that intelligence can grasp is what it succeeds in fixing in the form of manipulable and calculable elements and in referring to a time seen as sheer juxtaposition of instants.

anyone who says'by any means necessary' is a violent statement is violent themselves, because it is a comprehensive statement... It could be political, social, religious.

I'm making friends. Feeling good. My new name makes me feel lighter on my feet. With a new name, anything is possible.

Here and now, I don't want to be Detroit Red. I want to slip the skin of this life, to be new and clean again.