Quotes About Change

Tenía veinte años y era joven; tenía treinta años y era joven; tenía cuarenta y era joven. Ahora tengo cincuenta años y soy "todavía joven". Todavía quiere decir: se termina.

Preferí que la oscuridad fuera realmente impenetrable, a prueba de toda rendija iluminada, con tal de que sus estremecimientos de vergüenza, de miedo, qué sé yo, se cambiaran paulatinamente, en otros estremecimientos, más tibios, más normales, más propios de la entrega

Pero nunca será. Tú no eres ésa, yo no soy ése, ésos, los que fuimos antes de ser nosotros. Eras sí pero ahora suenas un poco a mí. Era sí pero ahora vengo un poco de ti. No demasiado, solamente

un día algo nos aparta un poco de la ruta y otro día otro poquito y así de deriva en deriva hasta que una de esas derivas se convierte en nuevo rumbo ni fijo ni incambiable ni retórico

qué curioso, qué extraño sería para nosotros otro tipo de vida, con discusiones, llantos, estallidos.

nuestra luna y su miel se llevaron a cabo con una praxis semejante a la de hoy ya que la humanidad ha innovado poco en este punto realmente cardinal

La costumbre de amar suele limar el amor, debilitarlo. Hay que amar al margen de cualquier costumbre, improvisadamente.

Antes eramos increíblemente tontos. Dejábamos que todo pasara y sólo hallábamos fuerzas para charlar, para escuchar cómo charlaban los otros.

Please make this nation remember how futures are built

We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Why stake your life on a world that is coming apart, instead of a kingdom that is coming together.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

endured—how I endured!—for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

Toby thought. It was a painful process, since he was not in the habit of thinking very much about anything.

You cannot change other people, miss," Yvette would say. "You must change yourself inside first.

RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.