Quotes About Change

Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?

Motion does not begin in what has moved, nor does it begin in what has not moved, nor does it begin in what is moving. In what, then, does motion begin?

The young everywhere…would prefer to live in houses that consist only of doors.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

tarikh,siasate gozashte,va siasat,tarikhe hal ast

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando estamos muertos, lo que hicimos continúa tramando estas nuevas combinaciones.

So everything is something else.

It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women--a new job, a new town, a divorce--which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

Change the world but keep bits of it the way I like it for myself — who wouldn't make the world over if it were to be as easy as that.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.

More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do." —2011 UN Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of National, Racial, or Religious Hatred

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

Yoksa ben gerçekten deÄŸiÅŸmis miydim? Hiç bir sey bilmiyordum. Fakat kendimi yeniden doÄŸmuÅŸ gibi hissediyordum. Tebessum yuzumden eksik olmuyordu ama bir yaprak yerinden oynasa hissedebiliyor, bütün yeryüzündeki ac?lar? duyumsayabiliyordum.

Il faut se séparer, il faut se couper non seulement de l'être aimé, mais de tout ce qui a été notre vie jusque-là, notre bien-être, notre chez-soi, notre vie calme et sans histoires. Sans cette coupure radicale, sans cette séparation douloureuse, le nouveau feu ne jaillira pas. Nous resterons près de la terre.

L'exil accélère l'oubli. L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.

Si la vie s'est écoulée, sa racine est le présent. Arrose-là de l'eau du repentir. Alors le poison de l'an dernier se change en sucre, les mauvaises actions se transforment en dévotion, le passé lui-même devient sans tache.

Thought you were--' '--Raphael said--' 'I said, no way in hell--' 'Damn straight--' '--and Ransom was ready to come--' '--woke up and I had wings!

llium snorted. "I look like a damned duck." His words weren't far off the mark. The feathers that had grown over the injured section were soft, white, and delicately … fluffy. "I hope to hell these baby feathers fall off and get replaced by real ones. They will, won't they?" He sounded worried.

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn't enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself.

We can decide to remain in our isolated bunkers, becoming more and more obsessed with looking inward instead of outward, or we can decide to be great together. We can decide to stagnate, or we can decide to grow. We can decide to settle for the status quo, or we can decide to reach for the stars. "Choose.