In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
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Walter Mosley
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Mitch Albom
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
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Douglas Adams
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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C.s. Lewis
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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Jandy Nelson
More Quotes By Gordon S. Wood
In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic — condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.
Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.
In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.
