Quotes About Change

Certain acts dazzle us and light up blurred surfaces, if our eyes are sharp enough to see them in a flash, for the beauty of a living thing can be grasped only fleetingly. To pursue it during its changes leads us inevitably to the moment when it ceases, for it cannot last a lifetime. And to analyze it, that is, to pursue it in time with the sight and the imagination, is to view it in its decline, for following the marvelous moment in which it reveals itself, it diminishes in intensity.

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

What made the colony a realm distinct from the realm of the living was the change of symbols and, in certain cases, of values. The colonists had their own dialect, which was closely related to that of the prisons, and hence a particular ethics and politics.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

É costume dizer-se que o Homem é feito de células e sangue. Mas, na realidade, ele é como as folhas das árvores. É preciso que o vento lhes sopre para se ouvir o seu cantar.

Her body was fermenting like new wine.

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.

A young thinker, untainted by current indoctrinations. Someone who might do some real good in the world.

Malaga Alves." Obviously. Everything that rises must converge.

Do you think the coroner would talk to me?" "Don't see why not. We've come a long way since Deliverance. We're pretty nice to outsiders now.

And I suppose this is you speaking truth to power. The principle your whole life is organized around." Naomi started. There was loathing in the way it was said. She had never suspected. She shook her head sadly. "No, I don't think I can do that anymore. As you pointed out to me, I'm the power. This is me speaking power to truth.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.

Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.