Quotes about Change

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

New friends," he said, as if it were an important point, "can often have a better time together than old friends." With

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.

Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.