Quotes About Change

Not all relationships that end are failures.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me." "Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

We must clearly do something.

I think some people are lucky to be so fond of a place they are going back to. But it's not lucky if they let that blind them to the place they find themselves

Mammi Fisher fears you will become en alt

If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping.

Some progress is progress. I see change.

Would a white supremacist group bond together against an African-American group if the African-American group magically transformed into whites?

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! — Anatole France

In a verbally abusive relationship the partner may recognize some problems but may believe that they can be worked out. Over time, however, as the abuse intensifies or changes in kind, the partner may

begin to fear the abuser and to realize that she is being abused. If she confronts the abuser, if he is unwilling to change, if he becomes angrier and more abusive or more manipulative and confusing, if she asks him to stop it and he refuses or continues to

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman

as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Husbands come and go, children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

Sometimes it was best to make a change, and sometimes the only way to make a change was to be forced into it.

Life is not a straight line, she said. And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

The ship of aunts has arrived," said Grandfather softly. "Aren't you going down?" I nodded. "You'll be nice, won't you?" I said to him. "I will be as charming as a prince," said Grandfather. "We'll see," I said. I left Grandfather laughing behind me.

I remember years ago when you first came here. I took a picture of you and Jacob and Caleb--he was little then. And Anna. And the dogs." He looked at Lottie and Nick. "They're a little older now." "We all are," said Mama. "Anna married Justin this past week." "So I heard," said Joshua. Joshua shook Grandfather's hand. "Hello, John," he said. "I'm older, too," said Grandfather with a smile.