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Quotes About Change

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.
~ Matt Bomer
In life, things do not always stay the same. There are certain alchemies that marry together at particular moments in particular places with particular people.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
I used to do martial arts when I was a kid but I stopped when I was pretty young.
~ Isa Briones
Una vez que hayas escogido a un hombre, no trates de cambiarlo. No se puede. Pero lo más importante es no permitir que trate de cambiarte a ti. Tampoco se puede, pero los hombres siempre lo intentan.
~ Diana Gabaldon
had anyone asked, I would have called Jamie Fraser a merciful man. He had been, once. But the years between now and then had been hard ones - and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance, I had thought he still had his kindness, though; and felt a queer pain at the thought of its loss.
~ Diana Gabaldon
way for new, winter taking away the remnants of the old to clear room for the young growth. Life, in other words, in all its fierce beauty and stark routine. All things went to the soil eventually. It was the way of life.
~ Diana Palmer
Jason looked down at her with smoldering eyes in a taciturn face. "You'll have to do something about Mumbles before we come back for Thanksgiving, Gracie," he told her quietly. "Kittie's allergic to cats.
~ Diana Palmer
But you'll get used to it. Life has to be lived. You can't sit by the road and watch it pass.
~ Diana Palmer
He needs shaking up, I tell you, he's going to die an old maid. He gets all funny and red when unmarried ladies talk to him at church, and just look at how grumpy he's been since you've been around. We've got to save him, Amanda, he said solemnly.
~ Diana Palmer
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead. Dead? said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie and Howl were living - somewhat quarrelsomely it must be confessed, although they were said to be happiest that way - in the moving castle again
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Polaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one sure way to send him into a flaming rage is to suggest that he finds a new Companion. Sirius will not hear of it. The small white sphere circling his goes untenanted, because he hopes that what Miss Smith said is true.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore....
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out! Despair! Anguish! Horror!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You're still here, he said. Is something the matter? Sophie sniffed. I'm old, she began. But it was just as the Witch had said and the fire demon had guessed. Michael said cheerfully, Well, it comes to us all in time. Would you like some breakfast?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
horrible horseless carriage. The invisible watchers
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You can't alter the past. The only thing you can alter is the future. People write stories pretending you can alter the past, but it can't be done. All you can do to the past is remember it wrong or interpret it differently, and that's no good to us.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Don't worry, old thing," Sophie said to the face. "You look quite healthy. Besides, this is much more like you than you really are.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Then the geese replaced themselves with six pigs and vanished.
~ Diana Wynne Jones