“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”

—  Lionel Shriver , book Checker and the Derailleurs

Source: Checker and the Derailleurs

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly." by Lionel Shriver?
Lionel Shriver photo
Lionel Shriver 34
American writer 1957

Related quotes

Glenn Beck photo

“See, when you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that's where you get people to believe. You know? It's like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in "and it's the Jews' fault." That's where things get a little troublesome, and that's exactly what's happening.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

on a documentary film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth
2000s

Zig Ziglar photo

“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Richard Bach photo

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Laurie Anderson photo

“Paradise
Is exactly like
Where you are right now
Only much much
Better.”

Laurie Anderson (1947) American musician

"Language is a Virus (from Outer Space)", opening lines; the song title itself is a quote of William S. Burroughs.
United States Live (1984)

John C. Maxwell photo

“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Connie Willis photo

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Connie Willis (1945) American science fiction writer
H. Beam Piper photo

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer

Source: Fuzzies and Other People

Laozi photo

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”

Frank E. Peretti book Monster

Source: Monster

Andrew Sullivan photo

“You start with where you are, not where you were or where you want to be. There are no utopias in the future or Gardens of Eden in our past. There is just now — in all its incoherent, groaning, volatile messiness. Our job, like everyone before us, is to keep our nerve and make the best of it.”

Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger

The Reactionary Temptation (2017)
Context: You will not arrest the reactionary momentum by ignoring it or dismissing it entirely as a function of bigotry or stupidity. You’ll only defuse it by appreciating its insights and co-opting its appeal.
Reaction can be clarifying if it helps us better understand the huge challenges we now face. But reaction by itself cannot help us manage the world we live in today — which is the only place that matters. You start with where you are, not where you were or where you want to be. There are no utopias in the future or Gardens of Eden in our past. There is just now — in all its incoherent, groaning, volatile messiness. Our job, like everyone before us, is to keep our nerve and make the best of it.

Related topics