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Quotes About Change

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
~ A.A. Milne
How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied. 'You mean to die?' asked Pooh. 'Yes and now,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
~ A.A. Milne
Hallo, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, as he opened the door and came out. "How are you?" "It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
~ A.A. Milne
I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." ~Winnie the Pooh
~ A.A. Milne
Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?" "Has he?" "Yes, look." "I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings." "Well, he has, Pooh." "Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
~ A.A. Milne
Sedikit Pengertian, sedikit Perhatian untuk Orang Lain, akan membuat perubahan besar.
~ A.A. Milne
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going
~ A.A. Milne
The year might age, and cloudy The lessening day might close, But air of other summers Breathed from beyond the snows, And I had hope of those. They came and were and are not And come no more anew; And all the years and seasons That ever can ensue Must now be worse and few. So here's an end of roaming On eves when autumn nighs: The ear too fondly listens For summer's parting sighs, And then the heart replies.
~ A.E. Housman
Westward on the high-hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless blood of man. ... There, when hueless is the west And the darkness hushes wide, Where the lad lies down to rest Stands the troubled dream beside. There, on thoughts that once were mine, Day looks down the eastern steep, And the youth at morning shine Makes the vow he will not keep.
~ A.E. Housman
The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
~ A.E. Housman
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
~ A.E. Housman
Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood.
~ A.E. Housman
Sylvia had finished her story, and the mystery was clear to Chayne. She had told him the secret which she did not know herself. He was sure now why Gabriel Strood had changed his name; he knew now why Gabriel Strood no longer climbed the Alps; and why Kenyon would answer no question as to the disappearance of his friend.
~ A.E.W. Mason
Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.
~ A.J. Orde
Futile: it was an epitaph on his past and an adjective for his tomorrow.
~ A.J. Quinnell
Revolutions in short are made in the name of the proletariat, not by it, and usually in countries where the proletariat hardly exists.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
It is important to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
Soup kitchens were the prelude to revolution. The revolutionaries might talk about socialism, those who actually revolted wanted 'the right to work'- more capitalism, not its abolition.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?)
~ A.P.
Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.
~ A.R. Ammons
Where I am going, nothing of me will remain: yet, I'll drift through the voices of coyotes, drip into florets by a mountain rock.
~ A.R. Ammons
Öte yandan, modern dünya ?iirinin kurucular?n?n ?iirin yap?s?nda yapt?klar? devrim, dizeyi de yerinden oynatm??t?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 36
~ İlhan Berk
That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.
~ Ã…sa Larsson