Sergio Ramos Quotes

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Change will always be violent.

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Venezuela has changed forever.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Let us look the danger fairly in the face. Secession is neither more nor less than revolution.

Look for me in the whirlwind.

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

Politically, [Latin] America is the same as it is physically: the land of the earthquakes.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

This is Real Madrid, and I understand there is great pressure for new signings to succeed here.

I unsettle all things.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.