Quotes About Change

tenía diecinueve años y me sentía como una anciana cuya vida ya había pasado. Entonces me di cuenta de que uno es joven mientras hace planes para el futuro y ese futuro es un misterio que le atrae, pero al que también teme. Cuando eso deja de ocurrir, es viejo.

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The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

In those olden times you didn't have to be a space scientist to manage the gadget that flicked your TV on and off, that ridiculous thingamabob that now comes with twenty push buttons, God knows what for. Doctors made house calls. Rabbis were guys. Kids were raised by their moms instead of in child-care pens like piglets. Software meant haberdashery.

Yes, carbon paper, if any of you out there are old enough to remember what that was. Why, in those days we not only used carbon paper but when you phoned somebody you actually got an answer from a human being on the other end..

In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains.

I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

Eight forces sustain creation: Movement and stillness, Solidification and fluidity, Extension and contraction, Unification and division. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough

Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.

There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.

Later life is a special period of development, with unique limitations and opportunities. And it may be the most important phase of your life. You can change a lot in later life—if you really want to.

populist fantasies. And the truth is that real change is historical, and if one is going to point to, say

Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civili- zation, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.

By the end of the fifteenth century, people were seeking something still newer. What they sought, and what they found, was Modern Times.

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

My life needs editing.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.