Quotes About Change

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

The Corsican nobleman di Buonaparte was now entirely transformed into the French general Bonaparte. The process had been long and difficult: loyal Corsican; mercenary cosmopolitan, ready as an expert artillery officer for service in any land or under any banner; lastly, Frenchman, liberal, and revolutionary.

The newly rich lost their balance and their stolidity, becoming as giddy and frivolous and aggressive as the worst.

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

Dentro de poco ya no los veremos. Y dentro de otro poco, los volveremos a ver».16

Todas las cosas se derrumban y dejan de ser, y no hay nada que pase más rápido que la vida de un hombre feliz.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better. ... LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts

The future is today.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Toda cultura es provisional, porque siempre otra cultura está al acecho. Toda cultura es tanteo, exploración, experimento, y siempre sabemos que del descubrimiento del error y de la conciencia del error puede nacer lo nuevo.