Quotes About Change

How is it that strangers sometimes support you more than your friends? No, that is not wholly true--no one could be more loyal than Tonin. Maybe it is simply that you rely so heavily on old friends that their voices in your head begin to sound like your own, and when you hear a new friend's words, they fall like fresh rain. [Édouard Manet]

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently—preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were given different ethnicities or races? How would that change the story? EMOTION SWITCH

Muista poika, että tämän päivän kapinallinen on huomispäivän pieru

Povera camera, sei mai stata abitata? Come fa freddo qui, come ti abito poco. Ci sto forse per cancellare tutte le tracce del mio soggiorno? Di nuovo, di nuovo, camminando e rimanendo sempre qui, un altro paese, altre città, altre strade, lo stesso paese.

Order! As happens with all political blunderers, the word was ceaselessly upon his lips, and nothing could have persuaded him to admit that the world had changed even a little in the last century.

Los días vividos, pletóricos o vacíos, tranquilos o agitados, son todos por igual días pasados, y la ceniza del pasado pesa lo mismo en todas las manos.

How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.

In every period, and in every country, there have always been two parties: the reactionary and the progressive.

A glacier is like a river; the level places where it spreads out tranquilly are followed by turbulent falls.

Every progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents.

Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes.

The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a reminding of this being.

In advocating nonviolence one reinforces established violence.

The idea of tradition is this double movement: being other in order to be the same, forgetting in order to conserve, producing in order to receive, looking ahead in order to receive the entire force of the past.

Behavior develops 'in a spiral'...Every motor theme of embryonic life can be considered as a theme that will be elaborated at a higher level in postnatal life.

What we call disorder and ruin, others who are younger live as the natural order of things.