Quotes About Change

Why does everybody think I argue? I never argue." Skye hesitated. "Or at least, I'm not going to argue as much anymore." "That would be a miracle." Skye chose to pretend she hadn't heard.

Then that night there was an early frost, and by Sunday morning, autumn had truly arrived. The sky was a rich cloudless blue, the air still and dry, the maple trees glowing with glorious reds and oranges and yellows, and everywhere on Gardam Street squirrels bustled about with self-importance, burying their nuts in the most unlikely places.

It seemed that the closer the girls got to Mrs. Tifton, the louder Skye squished, like a monster jellyfish with feet.

It wasn't a rock. It was a dog's rubber bone, left behind months ago to be buried first under autumn leaves, then winter snow. Just an old rubber bone, but Batty was already braced for what she knew would come—the rushing in her ears, the stab in her stomach, and the seeping away of the colors from her world. The soft blue spring sky, the yellow forsythia hedge, even Ben's bright red hair—all dulled, all gray and wretched.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

the institution of afternoon tea is suffering in an England that grows more American every day,

Death can do that, make reality as hard to hold on to as water dripping through your fingers.

Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks—or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

Depression isn't a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless.

If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

I never knew people could be afraid of good news too. I realized that good news took you places you didn't know anything about. It changed everything as much as bad news.

There's a perfectly good chance that this is a day you're going to remember for the rest of your life. This is the day when you got your second chance, when everything changed.

Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering.

We have stressful habits that stand in the way of our desire for change and leave us feeling empty. We have fast-paced lifestyles filled with technological distractions and oversimplified solutions to complex problems that keep us from what we really need.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Big, old companies are simply not designed for digital.

Names and knowledge change, the way the turning world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.