Quotes About Change

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,' she said. 'You know, actually change something.' 'What, like "change the world", you mean?' 'Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

Faint-hearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at … something.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.

Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the beginning.' 'Course I was.' 'Well why can't you be in love with me again?

She didn't feel like an adult. She was in no way prepared. It was as if a fire alarm had gone off in the middle of the night and she was standing on the street with her clothes bundled up in her arms.

you know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do...

I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete.

Generally speaking, I resolve to change my life on average maybe thirty to forty times a week, usually at about two a.m, drunk, ore early the next morning, hungover.

Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you.

Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.

Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.

te quiero mucho. Tanto, pero tanto... Y probablemente siempre te quiera. –Los labios de Emma le tocaron la mejilla–. Lo que pasa es que ya no me gustas. Lo siento.

Dexter, te quiero mucho. Tanto, pero tanto... Y probablemente siempre te quiera . - Los labios de Emma le tocaron la mejilla-. Lo que pasa es que ya no me gustas. Lo siento.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,' she said. 'You know, actually change something.' 'What, like "change the world", you mean?' 'Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

Supongo que lo importante es aportar algo –dijo ella–. Cambiar las cosas, vaya. –¿En qué sentido, el de "cambiar el mundo"? –No, todo el mundo no, sólo la pequeña parte que te rodea.

I felt the proximity of change, and I had wanted more than anything for something in my life to change. Is it still possible to feel like that, I wonder? Or does it only happen to us once?

Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.

But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?

Other species don't suffer like people,' he said. 'Lizards don't start to drink earlier and earlier in the day. Hartebeests don't become dirty old hartebeests. Orang-outangs don't dread redundancy. Llamas don't go through the change of life. Elderly chameleons don't fear old age and tell their bored infants: "Natural camouflage isn't what it was when I was a lad.

by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions…which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.