Quotes About Change

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance.

Life's got a habit of slipping through your fingers, slippery as an eel, and leaving you with nothing. Maybe if we're offered a chance at something good, we should grab it while we can

Deliquescence.

I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.

I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.

These kids have no innocence anymore

we shift around on a seesaw moral continuum for our whole lives. Nobody stays the same!

Imagine the person you love and trust becoming a different person overnight. What would you do?

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

Wielkie rzeczy kszta?tuj? na swe podobie?stwo ma?e. ?e za? ma?e szybciej id?, mo?na, patrz?c na nie, domy?le? si? wielkich.

I stokro? wol? typ kobiety przej?ciowej ni? typ kobiety przysz?o?ci - bo kobieta przej?ciowa zapowiada niesko?czenie wi?cej, ni? tamta w swym dokonaniu si? usprawiedliwi

Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.

Does the river make the choice to erode the rock?

Fear causes the greatest changes, when you think about it. Fear is a monumental force.

had not lived the life of the girl in New York. She had chosen to go to Iowa,

Maybe that's the point: he was just a typical guy in a typical place, and he made choices, and each choice changed him, and each change began to close off other possibilities, seal shut other rooms, exclude other people he might become, one by one, until he could no longer be anything but what he was.

It is what it is and Life Goes on

A timeless leader practices the art of voluntary elimination. He knows what activities - physical or mental - must be given up so that an organization becomes more productive. A new organization is born in the womb of the old organization. A new generation of new recruits is forever striving to replace an old generation of employees. It is a war of sorts: a clash of perspectives and worldviews. This kind of war is inevitable. We cannot shy away from it.