Quotes About Change

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

get it." They emerged from the doorway and moved

thinking that this conversation was going

unaware of the fate around the corner.

Jackie French

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you're off it.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence.

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.

I wish I had learned to sail sooner in ministry rather than rowing so hard." I immediately thought of the way I have rowed so hard against the wind rather than hoisting a sail and yielding the boat of my life to the wind of God's Spirit—blowing my life wherever He wanted.

And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.

I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

In summer heat he longed for her. When leaves turned, green to gold, he watched for her. As winter came, on feathered backs of redwing, fieldfare, and threaded through the call of curlew, he waited for her.

She who could speak in leaves and knew the language of birds, the history of the world, knew that it was time for a change.

Movements originate when the truth is revealed.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

Madeleine Tully turned fourteen yesterday, but today she did not turn anything. Oh, wait. She turned a page.