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Quotes About Change (page 83)

The gunslinger turned his eyes up to the faces in the leaves. A play was being enacted there for his amusement Worlds rose and fell before him. Empires were built across shining sands where forever machines toiled in abstract electronic frenzies. Empires declined and fell. Wheels that had spun like silent liquid moved more slowly, began to squeak, began to scream, stopped. Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels.... Stephen King
Aldous Huxley quote: "They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not..."
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though Aldous Huxley
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is... Bell Hooks
Stephen King quote: "Politics always change. Stories never do."
Politics always change. Stories never do. Stephen King
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. Ann Rule
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle,..."
But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some thirty-six good twists by the time I've gotten up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, Ok, let's make this day another good one. Haruki Murakami
Ayn Rand quote: "I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed..."
I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. Ayn Rand
He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her. Mark Helprin
Shirley Chisholm quote: "I am and always will be a catalyst for change."
I am and always will be a catalyst for change. Shirley Chisholm
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason..."
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better. Evelyn Waugh
George R. R. Martin quote: "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's..."
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna George R. R. Martin
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting. Willa Cather
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. Martin Luther King jr.
I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort. Harold Brodkey

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