Quotes About Change

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it plunges us into an endless void, because today's reality is destined to prove delusion for us tomorrow; and life doesn't conclude. It can't conclude. Tomorrow if it concludes, it's finished.

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

Big Angel had never noticed his mother's endowment before. Suddenly, she seemed to be blessed with an expanse of pillowy flesh. And she tucked the parrot into that cleavage, adjusting herself as it sank from view, finishing the operation by using her thumb on its head to get it well positioned in the shadows. She adjusted her bust and said, "Let's go to San Diego, boys!

Don Pepe was a Mexican man: a fatalist. He meant to impart much more than comfort. He meant that all good things would also end. All joy would crumble. And death would visit each and every one of them. He meant that regimes and ancient orders and cultures would all collapse. The world as we know it becomes a new world overnight.

Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.' They stared at the rocks in the garden. 'And what do mountains remember?' 'When they were ocean floors.' Big Angel, Zen master.

Some of the women, it must be said, had not yet accepted the idea that a woman could be Municipal President. They had been told that they were moody and flighty and illogical and incapable for so long that they believed these things.

She is a karateka ," La Osa replied. "Nayeli could karate-kick you to death where you sit." "That's hardly feminine." He sniffed. "Perhaps," Nayeli suggested, "it is time for a new kind of femininity.

La palabra 'migración' significaba para los de Tres Camarones la temporada en que el atún y las ballenas pasaban rumbo al norte por la costa, o cuando las guacamayas llegaban del sur. No sabían de otro significado

Life shifting, as life does

She patted Teresita on the head. She was five years older when she rose than when she'd sat down.

Came home to find the Sting CDs gone. Odd. He thought she must have taken the boom box into the kitchen to wash the dishes. But the boom box was also gone. He looked in the bedroom - the bed was stripped. He said aloud, "If the tampons are gone, you have left me." The medicine cabinet was bare.

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

I am the only one who hasn't changed. I remain Catholic and atheist, thank God.

Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears—an effect that through its impact justifies the risk taken and pays for it. During certain historical periods, at the level of the object, this meant dealing with and creating mysteries. At the level of situations, and in this case, it means the change of social structure.

Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.

Terminó la niñez y caí en el mundo.

O futuro era muito melhor antigamente.

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

Cuando la realidad molesta demasiado, simplemente se cambia.

Abandono mi pasado, pero no quiero olvidarlo. Por eso apuntaré lo que debo recordar.

Otra de esas vidas que te rozan, se anudan un breve tiempo con la tuya, y luego se dejan llevar por la corriente hacia otras latitudes

Nadie quiere cambiar las cosas?

If the communist party under the leadership of Joma Sison insists on being too radical, too incorrigible, they will fail. They will, as the saying goes, "die on the vine." They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them. They should instead abide by the people's interest...