Quotes About Change

Before Melanthe became my enemy, she was my best friend.

We cross the point of no return. . . .

Her voice was different, throatier. She sounded like she should be on the cigarettes-and-curlers end of a sex line.

It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.

Hally : – […] See, a smart woman tends to act on your typical eighteen-year-old male like instant kryptonite. But, not to worry – mother tells me something mystical happens at graduation and suddenly male people who never pulled a grade above a C in their lives automatically become smarter than anything that wears a skirt. Maybe after that happens, we can date who we want.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.

El futuro es un vacío indiferente que no le interesa a nadie, mientras que el pasado está lleno de vida y su rostro nos excita, nos irrita, nos ofende y por eso queremos destruirlo o retocarlo. Los hombres quieren ser dueños del futuro sólo para poder cambiar el pasado.

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes

Ljudi izvikuju kako žele da stvore lepšu budu?nost, ali to nije istina. Budu?nost je praznina prema kojoj su svi ravnodušni, koja nikoga ne zanima, dok je prošlost puna života i njeno lice nas izaziva, ljuti, vre?a tako da ga želimo uništiti ili premazati bojom. Ljudi žele da budu gospodari budu?nosti samo zato, da mogu da menjaju prošlost.

Aucun grand mouvement qui veut transformer le monde ne tolère le sarcasme ou la moquerie, parce que c'est une rouille qui corrode tout.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

It's interesting how a random event can change our lives in ways that would be impossible to imagine, isn't it?

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress, we have to drive it. —Susan Rice

If you want to turn your life around you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you.

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

What is behind me still remains ahead of me.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.

every man has his mission, which is to leave the world better, in some way, than he found it.