Quotes About Change

I think there are certain people who change the way time moves.

My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

All the books she'd read had taught her nothing about what you do when your mother doesn't die but turns into someone you don't know, someone who doesn't take care of you anymore.

Besides, some things just can't make the leap from past to present, and that hat was not a leaper.

When it happens— the great sea change, the alteration of one's life into something rich and strange— when it singles one out, one is always lucky, lucky automatically. I'm talking about transformation, and the transformation I'm talking about is always a gift. A blessing.

Lucía la miró y cayó en la cuenta de que ella jamás tendría una vida doméstica normal, porque sus pensamientos estaban demasiado contaminados por el pasado.

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

You'll know who you are when you start losing things,' Doris said.

But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

The world moves on, and you are forgotten. Which is as it should be, I suppose. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better when what was first was best. It's only that you were too foolish to realize it.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

Guys are like accessories. If you don't like how they turn out, get a new one.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

I can't change Mr. L., but I can change how I think of him. If I don't care about his opinion, his insults can't hurt me.

If people don't change their minds, there's no hope for the human race.

She wondered whether Pearl wasn't right in her dire warnings that this relationship with Suzy would change her forever. It probably would. But perhaps she wanted to change. What else was life all about?

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face—' Her hand touched his, stopping him.

Yesterday was always leaving and there was always tomorrow, waiting at the door.

Saying goodbye is a little like dying.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.