Quotes About Change

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.

I'm afraid, you're right...though not only of them. We'll lose everything, including the way we live,' Hussein said. 'And these young people will lose even more. One day they'll make them spit on all that we know, and will make them recite their laws and their story of the world as if it were the holy word. When they come to write about us, what will they say? That we made slaves.

I thought you'd come back to get married,' he said with a grin. 'Not to carry out an archaeological project.' 'Cut out that getting married stuff,' I said, and in this way we smilingly slid past the troublesome moment.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Life doesn't walk away, we do.

Time change - Moments don't.

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

The past is in the wastebasket.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued." But, he adds, it is out of failure that a person often finds the inner strength to grow and attain major achievements in life. "A lot of people make a big contribution to society out of their own suffering," he says. "A crisis forces change.

Abigail Van Buren

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.