Quotes About Change

El amor es como una planta o un animal. Vive y se desarrolla. Nace, crece, envejece y muere.

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

La vie change après, mais on ne peut pas s'imaginer comment. Cela prend du temps à comprendre, pas comme un déménagement où on ne trouve plus rien. Non, tout est à sa place, mais rien n'est pareil. Sauf qu'on ne le sait pas avant longtemps. On le sait, bien sûr, mais on se demande pourquoi il n'y a pas plus de preuves.

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.

Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.

Première raison de la servitude volontaire, c'est la coutume

I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

You will forget. Life is like that. Everything goes in time. Memories blur, pain diminishes. I remember my wife as one remembers a bird or a flower

Je n'étais encore qu'un enfant. Mais je n'ai rien oublié. — Vous oublierez. La vie est ainsi faite.

Quello che mi interessa sapere è se scrive delle cose vere o delle cose inventate. Le rispondo che cerco di scrivere delle storie vere, ma, a un certo punto, la storia diventa insopportabile proprio per la sua verità e allora sono costretto a cambiarla. Le dico che cerco di raccontare la mia storia, ma che non ci riesco, non ne ho il coraggio, mi fa troppo male. Allora abbellisco tutto e descrivo le cose non come sono accadute, ma come avrei voluto che accadessero.

Cuando el tren empezó a moverse y a salir de la estación, me asomé a la ventanilla. Pero no miré atrás, sino adelante. Como debe ser. En los viajes, lo mismo que en la vida, nunca hay que mirar al furgón de cola donde llevamos el equipaje del pasado, sino a la locomotora que nos conduce al porvenir. (Aunque parezca que este pensamiento lo he robado de la hoja de un calendario, juro que se me ha ocurrido a mí. Por si acaso.) (P. 192).

Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

The man was to be pitied, a simplistic dinosaur incapable of comprehending the new dynamics of the educational suprasystem and the role of academics as change-agents.

people should draw lessons from the past, but those who constantly look behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backside.

Stop the rot or lose the plot.

Think about the future and don't dwell on the past. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

One more spin around the sun... Ain't nuthin' changed. Still got trouble on my mind. Still got suckas that need to get dealt with... Still in mortal combat with the wicked....

Notice that the Gospel does not say "former tax collectors" or "former prostitutes.

Fundamentalists thrive in times of rapid social change. Fundamentalists generally champion emotionally charged issues that can be reduced to unambiguous black and white terms.

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.