Quotes About Change

Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.

If only my love was a net that could keep the flies out. If only my love was a net full of food for all the hungry bellies. I understand why so many people have given up on Africa - no one wants to say we are leaving a continent of people behind to tough it out in a hundreds-of-years-old war of survival, but we are, and the reason is because the level of change it would take to make a difference, to heal past wounds and chart a new path is mammoth, gargantuan, almost unimaginable.

Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist's brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now.

I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone. In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and telephones, murder and assassination.

The time for princes and tsars and grand duchesses and especially holy madmen was gone. In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and telephones, of murder and assassination. The bear had already become what it had been waiting to be, and the men who set it on its journey changed too. Lev became Trotsky, Vladimir took the name Lenin, and they stepped into a bright and furious modern world; blood red, and snow white.

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!]

Nothing quite new is perfect.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

Zeker is dat op de dag dat Milena en Andrea mijn leven binnenwandelden, het formaat van het mannelijk geslachtsdeel een obsessie voor mij werd. Niet alleen het formaat, het geslachtsdeel zelf, het ding an sich .

Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths.

The past is a closed door.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.