Quotes About Change

There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

The human being is changing slowly under the pressure of the economic milieu; he is in process of becoming the uncomplicated being the liberal economist constructed.

Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern.

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

The old dream that has tempted man from the beginning, the medieval legend of the man who sells his soul for an inexhaustible purse, which recurs with an enticing insistence through all the changes of civilization, is perhaps in process of being realized, and not a for a single man but all.

La prévoyance commence lorsque nous acceptons que nous sommes maintenant arrivés à créés une civilisation du risque.

My blood is become water; youth is frozen into senility; all things worth while are gone.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Le Temps nous égare ! Le Temps nous étreint ! Le Temps nous est gare ! Le Temps nous est train ?

what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but- the provisional permanence of certain changes.

aujourd'hui est le premier jour du reste de ma vie

Je ne peux changer autrui mais je peux changer mon regard, mon écoute et donc, par là, changer ma relation à lui.

The minutes seeped away like wine from a barrel.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me at Le Mourillon on that summer's day, when my eyes were opened to the sea.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.