Quotes About Change

At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.

I realized that life is a series of good-byes and I had to make sure that I didn't waste my days or use them up too soon.

I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?

but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

He told me we had to "move forward," which is a term that I've never understood. The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

The world is getting faster just as I'm getting slower. I can't keep up so I've stopped trying.

A single, random, foolish event can often change a life—a chance meeting, or an accident or a moment of madness. But more often it happens by increments like a creeping tide, so slowly that we barely notice. My life was altered by a diagnosis. It was never going to be a death sentence, but it has robbed me by degrees.

How does anyone know what's true or real? Things we once accepted as facts are now accepted as being wrong. The earth is not flat, smoking isn't good for us, Pluto isn't a planet, witches weren't burnt at the stake in Salem, and humans have more than five senses. Everything has a half-life—even facts.

Living in this world will change you," she confides. "It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don't think it's normal; I think it's a fucking miracle.

Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

He discovered its self-accumulating, self-reproducing nature and gave the spiral a motto (perhaps the only one associated with a geometric shape): Eadem mutato resurgo—Although changed, I arise again the same.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present" -Niccolo Machiavelli

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.

It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.

That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.

These poor beasts are driven solely by their need to survive and to feed. It is their nature, and their nature has made them predictable. But man, on the other hand, has the capacity to change his nature. Man is the only animal that can destroy the world. Beasts live only in the present, but humans have the capacity to live for the future, to lay down plans for their children and grandchildren, plans that can take years, decades, even centuries, to mature.

Wat nu weer?... Millennia lang zie ik niemand en nu lijk ik opeens weer populair te zijn. - Mars Ultor

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.