Quotes & Sayings About Making Changes In The New Year

I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert. — Aurel Stein

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story. — Jimmy Piersall

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. — Saul Bellow

There are so many things we can't do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won't go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, we feel it's hopeless, but if we go down, there is a nice road running about fifty meters, we feel this is a nice road, and if the weather is fine and shining, we feel we can go on ... Since the people in the community are cleaning up the river in my neighborhood, I join them when I have the time. A human can often be satisfied with the particulars. That's what I like best these days. — Hayao Miyazaki

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. — John Brown Gordon

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People change. It can happen quickly or it can happen slowly, but it will happen. Your job is to see it, recognize it. You gotta talk to each other. You might love blueberry pie and think it's the best fuckin' food on earth. Then one day, you decide you want to try lemon meringue. But your husband, he still thinks you like blueberry, so he keeps giving you blueberry every year for your birthday thinking he's doing the right thing. Your job is to tell him you want to try something different, and his job is to ask if you still like it. It goes both ways. She stopped liking blueberry pie a long time ago, Inky. Maybe if I'd asked, maybe if I hadn't worked long hours, I'd have noticed. So that's my advice. — J.B. Hartnett

We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself. — Janet Evanovich

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention. — Sade Adu

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes. — Josh Brolin

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things. — Bonnie Blair

You are the living miracle. — Akemi G

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner