quotes about change and moving on

Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues. ~Wendell H. Stephenson



Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot



Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ~Richard Aldington



It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding



Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route. ~Author Unknown



"Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!" He picked a ranunculus which gently swayed its golden head above the grass beside him, and with infinite delicacy, slowly and amorously, he turned it between his fat red fingers, from which the dried blood scaled off in places: "Isn't it adorable?" he repeated, looking at it. "It's so little, so fragile, and besides, it's all of nature; all the beauty and power of nature. It contains the world. A puny and relentless organism which goes straight to the goal of its desire! Ah, milady, flowers do not indulge in sentiment. They indulge in passion, nothing but passion. And they make love all the time, and in every fashion. They think of nothing else; and how right they are! Perverse? Because they obey the only law of life; because they are satisfied with the only need of life, which is love? But consider, milady, the flower is only a reproductive organ. Is there anything healthier, stronger, or more beautiful than that? These marvelous petals, those silks, these velvets... these soft, supple, and caressing materials are the curtains of the alcove, the draperies of the bridal chamber, the perfumed bed where they unite, where they pass their ephemeral and immortal life, swooning with love. What an admirable example for us!" ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. ~David Lloyd George



If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. ~Bruce Lee



It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski



Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe



We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take. ~Barack Obama, 2007 Dec 27, Des Moines, Iowa



Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. ~E. Knight



The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849



Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown



A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. ~Will Rogers