#old one

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#am #change #due #i #i am

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#critical #end #fair #history #justifies

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#even #lives #new #now #old

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. ↗

— George Etherege

#good #i #i love #love #mistress

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#after #began #different #fired #god

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#could #day #draw #drawn #every

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out. ↗

— Charley Pride

#came #every #i #i came #new

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one. ↗

— Douglas Jerrold

#conservative #institution #look #man #moon