Quotes About Change

The theory of crisis is not just a theory of fear but also a theory of hope.

I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.

Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground?

When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan's projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.

Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform—should you change your mind.

What a new sense of security Homer had felt in that moment of laughter with friends in the enclosed dark of the moving car, and what a sense of freedom the car itself gave to him—its seemingly effortless journeying was a wonder to Homer Wells, for whom the idea of motion (not to mention the sense of change) was accomplished only rarely and only with enormous strife.

It sounds the same to me, Kid," Molly said. "The new lift takes you to the same old place. It's the same trip, just a faster ride—it's no more or less depressing than it ever was," she added.

There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person's life.

As Nora had also said, "Nothing will change." She meant the Catholic Church and the Republicans, but—according to Em—the Republicans would get worse.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

Kanonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied

Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left.