#change

The world is changed by examples, not by opinions. ↗

— Paul Coelho

#change

Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,-- And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, We should but vow the faster for the stars. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #change

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#true #useless #change

There's nothing depraved about sex. Of course with a little creativity, some toys and a whole lot of dirty talk, you can change that. ↗

— Suzanne Wright

#change

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#eternity #free-will #maturity #melancholy #pain

Then, suddenly, I remembered the accident, and Edwart's snow-proof body, and his eyes that changed from I-don't-remember to green, and I knew. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#change

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #change

Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change

It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011 ↗

— Russell Grandinetti

#e-books #libraries #publishing #change