Questão 32 - UDESC Manhã 2025/2

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Famous Quotations about Change

 

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. (John Kennedy, American president)

 

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered”. (Nelson Mandela, South African president)

 

“Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. (Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, American novelist)

 

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change”. (Confucius, Chinese teacher)

 

“Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence”. (Masatoshi Naito, Japanese photographer)

 

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present”. (Jan Glidewell. American journalist)

 

“To change and to change for the better are two different things”. (German proverb)

 

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”. (Arnold Bennett, English novelist)

 

“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along”. (Lisa Alther, American novelist)

EARLE-CARLIN, S. Skills for Success. 2^nd edition, 2015.

 

Answer the questions below according to text.

Mark the alternative which has the correct negative inversion of the sentence: “Change is the law of life”.