Quotes About Change

Whether they will or no, Americans must begin to look outward.

The characteristic of the influenza virus that makes it so dangerous and gives rise to epidemic after epidemic is its extreme mutability. It perpetually is changing the nature of its outer surface, which antibodies, the body's most important defense system, must zero in on to be effective.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Es curioso, normalmente el tiempo recorta el tamaño de los recuerdos y los hace menos impresionantes en su alegría o en su tristeza".

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

Change in a triceThe lilies and languors of virtueFor the raptures and roses of vice.

If you were April's lady,And I were lord in May.

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

When you play the past over and over in your head, you can begin to see things in it that you missed when you were living it. You come to realize that there were moments when one word said differently, or one thing done at just the right time, would have changed everything.

Seek help from those who were satiated and then hungry, not from those who were hungry and then satiated.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

The 'racial types' they posited are of relatively recent origin, having been replaced over and over by other types of populations in previous centuries.

Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute.

Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed. Partly it felt unpleasant, to think like that, rude even. Partly it felt good. It was kind of a relief.

Cut this tree I'm living in down. Hollow its trunk out. Make me all over again, with what you scooped out of its insides. Slide the new me back inside the old trunk. Burn me. Burn the tree. Spread the ashes, for luck, where you want next year's crops to grow. Birth me and the tree Next summer's sun Midwinter guarantee

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what's unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.

It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue. It is the end of dialogue.

We move from one invisibility to another.

Elisabeth skims the day's paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there've been in the last half hour.

I look at the shut door. Houses change when people come in and out of them. Even the radio sounds different with just me here; this whole house and all the air in it is practically reeling with your going, even though it's just a simple going, an everyday off-to-work kind of going. I am far too sesnsitive. Something will have to be done about such sensitivity.