Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.

After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what's happening out there, now I'm upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I'm working through that.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Change is always a little bit strange.

Changing course is never easy.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.

Change is rarely comfortable.

Life is one big transition.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.