Long-standing togetherness writes permanent changes into a brain's open book. In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. (144)
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Related Isn't it funny that day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. C.S. LEWIS Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes. MICHELE WEINER-DAVIS One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... CLIVE CUSSLER Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're ... ELLEN ULLMAN The relationship between he and Toby is a long-standing one. JEFF SCHEMMEL A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as th... AULIQ ICE Like a transformer toy ? a car that changes its shape and turns into a robot ? the protein changes i... REBECCA NELSON Jane Heard. ONE i asked her why did you change? i am just like you she replied... SHIVANGI LAVANIYA Whoever changes one life, changes the whole world. MICHELE AMITRANI You see one of these things and it changes your whole perception of reality. CRAIG WOOLHEATER Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything. TESSA DARE That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch... ROBERT J. SAWYER Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... AULIQ ICE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. No one who writes a good book is really dead. WALTER MOERS The cornerstones of your life are family, religion, philanthropy and compassion. Your relationship w... BLAIR GORMAN Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often re... JOHN TYLER BONNER A good relationship should have a balanced fulcrum between serious and fun togetherness, open commun... LEAH DANCEL [Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having he... FRANK SACKS Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These ch... SUZI DAVIS A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart. JAIME CONTRERAS A relationship is only as open as it's most closed partner MARCUS GONZALES A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another hear... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ... WALTER MOSLEY A childish mind griped to unexpected changes. TOBA BETA There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. THOMAS A. EDISON What makes cancer so hard in terms of really conquering the disease is its complexity. There are myr... ANNA BARKER To make those changes effectively, he has to do them with an experienced staff, and he doesn't have ... JANE HARMAN There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to b... STEVE HANKE This building is one of the finest examples of its architectural style in the Midwest. As a result, ... DAVID BAHLMAN All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ... GAIL SHEEHY A wise man changes his mind, a fool never SPANISH PROVERB Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE When you you see no positive change take care of a negative change. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE JR I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. LEWIS CARROLL A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. PROVERB When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it. JACK GLEESON The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to rememb... THOMAS WOLFE i'm a permanent resident of every heart but a citizen of one. ROSA M. BETANCES The relationship with time changes when you're captive. INGRID BETANCOURT That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we'r... JASON WU the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM He shook his head in disbelief. He would cook and take her to his place. He was about to break two o... MARCIA WEBER MARTINS People, don't just seat there and wait. Sometimes you gotta change your daily routine if you're real... SEAN DAVZ One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B... F. H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B... FRANCIS H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answere... FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the hum... JOHN BADDELEY Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opport... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to... MARJANE SATRAPI And she changes speeds as well as anybody in the league. She's not the fastest, but she changes from... MIKE THIBAULT This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. SCOTT REED This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. SCOTT REED So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind. RADHA MITCHELL It is naive to imagine a program [Social Security] put into place in the 1930s will go on for anothe... CRAIG THOMAS I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multi... JOHN DOS PASSOS That changes things dramatically. He made one mistake - he got (LaRue), 0-2, then gave him something... TONY LA RUSSA ... We already have two changes in the secondary. I'd like not to make a third one. JIM DALEY One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. GEORGE SAND Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one. ROY H. WILLIAMS Our study is the first one of its kind because we followed the same people over time, looking at cha... DR. KATHLEEN MULLAN HARRIS There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relati... RANDEEP HOODA There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to ... RALPH L. WOODS There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist t... RALPH L. WOODS No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. BILLIE JEAN KING People who really want to make a difference in the world usually do it, in one way or another. And I... BETH CLARK Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the w... ALAN PRICE Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. SAMUEL JOHNSON Miracles and Disasters have something in common: one moment that changes everything. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co... ALAN TURING That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole g... GEORGE ALEXANDER In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and... RABINDRANATH TAGORE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. J.M. BARRIE We value our long-standing relationship with Boeing, and we work hard every day to earn its trust. JOE MARENGI Although the heart is the center for relationship matters,it is not a reliable partner. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Change can only be achieved if one actually changes. MICHAEL MCGROARTY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Changes. A lot of changes, but they're changes for the better. LANCE CARTER We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then ... LAURA ESQUIVEL I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. DAVID EDWARDS Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper war... KILROY J. OLDSTER One of the cardinal features of addiction is how long-lived it is, ... A key question in the field h... ERIC NESTLER What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra... MRS. JAMIESON There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit... PAT RILEY Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he... JESSE KORNBLUTH The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. JAMES BARRIE Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just a... DAVID MITCHELL A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often. OLIVER HERFORD Every season undergoes changes. I've been in the NFL over 30 years and it has been like that every s... BILL BELICHICK Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things? Master of Stupidity: No things,... TOBA BETA To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internal... ANAIS NIN No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. BILLIE JEAN KING Little changes can start to make a difference in the world. JANINE DI GIOVANNI A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything! UNKNOWN
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