Quotes About Change

Insomma, c'erano anche da noi tutte le cause della Rivoluzione francese. Solo che non eravamo in Francia, e la Rivoluzione non ci fu. Viviamo in un Paese dove si verificano sempre le cause e non gli effetti.

Just take a look around. The whole universe is…let's say it's in a transitional phase…" And they pointed to the sky, where the constellations have become unrecognizable, here clotted, there rarefied, the celestial map in upheaval, stars exploding one after the other, while more stars emit a final flicker and die.

Capirai quando avrai dimenticato quello che capivi prima

Anche ricordare il male può essere un piacere quando il male è mescolato non dico al bene ma al vario, al mutevole, al movimentato, insomma a quello che posso pure chiamare il bene e che è il piacere di vedere le cose a distanza e di raccontarle come ciò che è passato.

In the course of millions of years there was no form of living creature that hadn't had its opportunity to come forth, populate the Earth, and then—in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—decline and vanish.

Ma ogni momento della mia vita porta con sé un'accumulazione di fatti nuovi e ognuno di questi fatti nuovi porta con sé le sue conseguenze, cosicché più cerco di tornare al momento zero da cui sono partito più me ne allontano.

Ancient beauty is powerless against new ugliness.

Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?

I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it.

Llega un momento de la vida en que de la gente que uno ha conocido son más los muertos que los vivos. Y la gente se niega a aceptar otras fisionomías, otras expresiones: En todas las caras nuevas que encuentra, imprime los viejos calcos, para cada una encuentra una cara que se le adapta mejor.

Incominciava a formarsi il vortice che per un istante avrebbe sottratto l'operaio, la sartina, il povero borghese alla noia della vita volgare per condurli poi al dolore. Ammaccati, sperduti, alcuni sarebbero ritornati all'antica vita divenuta però più greve; gli altri non avrebbero trovato mai più la quaresima.

Le donne sono fatte così. Ogni giorno che sorge porta loro una nuova interpretazione del passato. Dev'essere una vita poco monotona la loro.

The circumference of love depends on the angle you see it from, I learned in the course of that madcap week after Father proposed to Rose.

PEOPLE COME AND GO in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever, and that is a fresh saga every time.

Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring. At the betrothal news Morrie had declared gallantly "I would not want to yield her to anyone but you, Oliver.

Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring.

THERE ARE MOMENTS in a lifetime when you can taste history as it is happening. When the flavor of time, from one hour to the next, somehow is not quite the same as any day before.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

A political program which does not explicitly recognize the need for deschooling is not revolutionary; it is demagoguery calling for more of the same.

P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.

Sudden change is of a different order than feedback or evolution. Observe the whirlpools below a waterfall. For many seasons the eddies stay in the same place no matter whether the water is high or low. Then, suddenly, one more stone falls into the basin, the entire array changes, and the old can never be reconstructed.

There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.