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Quotes About Change

Given the correlation between aging and death, declaring that you can't stand today's music might actually mark the first stage of the dying process.
~ Meghan Daum
But now it seemed to me that Hamlet was moody and irascible in no small part because he is grieving: his father has just died. He is radically dislocated, stumbling through the days while the rest of the world acts as if nothing important has changed.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I think: it's the holidays. There are parties. I'm young. I've spent the past two years going to oncologists. I'm going to put on my party shoes. And I do go to one party, and I leave when people start to dance around a pole. Later I start dating the man whose party it was, and he remembers being glad I came, and casually tells me how he flirted his head off that night. I'm not in your country, I think. I haven't lived in your country for a while.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: "gradually and then suddenly.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Their fierce response was a classic example of what is known as the "Semmelweis reflex"—the reflexive rejection of new paradigms in medicine
~ Meghan O'Rourke
When the cathedrals fall, my work is done!
~ Meher Baba
For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible he can easily define a nearer new destination.
~ Unknown
Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In autumn, don't go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan