There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
This election is going to say a lot about Virginia's future and about the country's future.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
There comes some time an end to all things, to the good and to the bad.
Defer not the date of repentance for sins and confession in the hope of grace or longevity of life.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.