Quotes About Change

She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a joke and was waiting for the laughter, or when she was afraid she'd talked too much, she would go for her mouth as if to cover nakedness - with Cokes or popsicles as a child, with drinks or cigarettes now. Maybe all the years of splayed, protruding teeth, and then of braces, had made her mouth the most vulnerable part of her for life.

And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do, beyond suffering, was wait and see what might be going to happen next.

Perché cambiava sempre tutto, quando l'unica cosa che si desiderava, l'unica cosa che si era mai chiesta umilmente a Dio o a chi per lui, era che certe cose potessero restare immutate?

Dan Rosenthal rose happily from his drawing board to shake hands on hearing there was a baby on the way. But after that brief ceremony, when we'd both sat down again, he peered at me reflectively. "How can you be a father," he asked, "when you still look like a son?" 

In the meantime, and this was the best part, in the meantime it was no longer necessary to dislike them.

If you lived like a proletarian long enough, among proletarians, weren't you almost certain to become a proletarian too?

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering...

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked up law I have ever heard." [...] "You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!" I yelled back.

Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there. Don't let them change me, I prayed silently. Let me keep my mind. Let me endure whatever there is to come.

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job." I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.