Quotes About Change

Mark Twain said that quitting smoking is among the easiest things one can do; he did it all the time. I would add vegetarianism to the list of easy things.

can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

La biodiversità era stata rimpiazziata dall'uniformità genetica, nelle università i dipartimenti di scienze animali erano diventati dipartimenti di scienze zootecniche, un'attività economica un tempo dominata dalle donne era ormai passata in mano ai maschi, e pollicoltori esperti erano stati rimpiazzati da dipendenti stipendiati. Non ci fu un colpo di pistola a segnare l'inizio della corsa verso il basso. Il terreno si inclinò e tutti scivolarono giù.

We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.

The best reason to think that there could be a better future is the fact that we know just how bad the future could be.

We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth of about eating animals?

Everything is possible again." It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Good writers are pleasing, very good writers make you feel and think, great writers make you change.

Entweder suchen wir uns aus, was wir veraendern, oder wir werden diejenigen sein, auf die sich Veraenderungen auswirken

A me piace vedere le persone riunite, forse è sciocco, ma che dire, mi piace vedere la gente che si corre incontro, mi piacciono i baci e i pianti, amo l'impazienza, le storie che la bocca non riesce a raccontare abbastanza in fretta, le orecchie che non sono abbastanza grandi, gli occhi che non abbracciano tutto il cambiamento, mi piacciono gli abbracci, la ricomposizione, la fine della mancanza di qualcuno.

In Vietnam, American troops were exposed to attacks twenty-four hours a day but were most often attacked at night. There was no safe time to mourn . Allowing one's attention to turn inward to grief could result in one's own death and the deaths of others. Night warfare reflects a change in the customs of war since Homer's time.

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.

But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.

Darwin argues, essentially, that all the sophistications we see in the eagle's or the human's eye could have arisen gradually, by stages, across geological spans of time, each stage conferring somewhat clearer vision than the one before.

Life is always poised for flight. From a distance it looks still, silhouetted against the bright sky or the dark ground; but up close it is flitting this way and that, as if displaying to the world at every moment its perpetual readiness to take off in any of a thousand directions.

Why do some people gravitate to a sentimental picture? Well, think about it: A sugar-coated Christ requires nothing from us—neither conviction nor commitment. Why? Because it's an image that lacks truth and power. We have to try to change that picture. And the only way to do it is to think about the resurrection.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Porque a revolução é uma pátria e uma família.

Yo no tengo autoridad moral para juzgar a nadie; en mi vida he hecho muchas locuras por amor y quien sabe si hare mas antes de morirme. El amor es un rayo que nos golpea de subito y nos cambia.

Cualquier pensamiento dañino, en la mente de cualquier hombre, puede en cualquier momento destruir el mundo.