Agnes Repplier Quotes

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

… history itself appears to be abandoning the eruption of events in favor of stable structures

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

We are all in the process of becoming.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

Change is the raw material of history.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

Change is always something you have to go through.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

Life is an evolution.

Change always takes time.

Change won't happen overnight.

We are not evolved but evolving.

Growth is the process of responding positively to change.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.