quotes about change in relationships

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. ~Edgar Saltus



Historians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous. ~Robert Stinson



An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown



How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~Author Unknown



The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown



It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying



Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, Remembrance of Things Past



The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest



Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ~Epictetus



To win, you've got to put the ball in the macrame. ~Terry McGuire



Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people. ~Ron Wyden



If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. ~Finley Peter Dunne



An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey



A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. ~Author Unknown



People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son