Quotes about Change
there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it.
— Margaret Atwood
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
— Margaret Atwood
The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?" "No, it isn't," says Charmaine. "Love isn't like that. With love, you can't stop yourself." She wants the helplessness, she wants…
— Margaret Atwood
Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how
— Margaret Atwood
But when you cross over the border, it is like passing through air, you wouldn't know you'd done it; as the trees on both sides of it are the same.
— Margaret Atwood
And when I go that way, grow fur, start howling, scratch at your airwaves: no matter who I claim I am or how I love you, turn the key. Bar the window.
— Margaret Atwood
Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!
— Margaret Atwood
Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.
— Margaret Atwood
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
Technology alone is not enough.
— Steve Jobs
If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
— Barack Obama