Quotes about Change

For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully understanding that, in the world God has given us, all things must change.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Well, I think of life as a novel. You can't just hop out of the mess you're in and into another story. You carry it all with you.

I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.