Old Ways Quotes

“Fighting a change and clinging to the same old ways of doing things have never proved to be productive for anyone - you or your customers.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“A wise witch knows the shadows come from the light.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“It was a brave old world.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Our ancestors did not separate magick and witchcraft from their daily lives. Witchcraft was more than just a practice, it was a way of life. A way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation. In this way, Old World Witchcraft honors the all-encompassing lifestyle of the witch. We are in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves and in alignment with our all-knowing inner witch.”
― Dacha Avelin

“When a woman embraces her inner witch, she finds new strength. She is overtaken by true serenity. She creates order where there was none before. Her eyes have now been opened.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib people remind us of what we lost trying to get up in the world. See, in the old days, according to Granny Straker, the more you left behind the old ways, the more acceptable you were to the powerful people in the government and the churches who had the power to change a black person's life.”
― Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb

“As one moves along the evolutionary pathways and one's frequencies become more and more rapid, the old ways of conducting business cease to work or cease to function easily and smoothly. New guidelines are essential.”
― Elaine Seiler, Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening

“I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world.

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Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive in the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and Hell and damnation ... but perhaps I am unjust even to them. Even the Lady of the Lake, who hated a priest's robe as she would have hated a poisonous viper, and with good cause too, chid me once for speaking evil of their God.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“We'll miss all of these.
Yes...we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is getting people to believe the effect of your notion, and have them believe in themselves of adapting to something new.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything.”
― Edith Nesbit, THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY – The Magical Adventures of Five Friends (Illustrated): Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet & The Story of the Amulet

“Today, there was no time for the old rituals and the old ways; there was barely time in each day to kiss your son good morning and your wife goodbye as you rushed out to the shop, trying to make a living, before trudging home with nothing to show after you’d paid the taxi fares and bought the milk for Klein Ben’s porridge …”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“The syndicate was successful in including an officer and two other crew members in its plan. Sheikh employed old ways of enticing by wine, women and money to use them.”
― Ravi Ranjan Goswami, द गोल्ड सिंडिकेट

“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Gdzie postacie, które tak dumnie i wzniośle kroczyły dawniej po twoich siedmiu wzgórzach, o Rzymie?
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Gdzie żołnierze legionów bezsenni, ogromni, z twarzą spiekłą od słońca, ochładzaną znojem, rozjaśnianą połyskami mieczów? — Wszyscy zniknęli jedni po drugich — przeszłość ich zagarnęła i jak matka tuli do łona. — Nikt ich nie wydrze przeszłości.
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Miasto nich podnoszą się nieznane dotąd kształty, ni piękne jak półbogi, ni silne jak olbrzymy tytańskich czasów; ale dziwaczne, migające złotem, z wiankami na czole, z pucharami w dłoni; a wśród kwiecia sztylety, a wśród biesiady trucizny, a w ich tańcach konwulsyjne podrzuty — niby to życie bez granic wśród pieśni i jęków, ryku hien i nawoływań gladiatorów. — Śmiech z takiej wiosny umajonej krwią i woniami spiekłych kadzideł! — Śmiech z takiego życia! — Ono przejściem tylko, ono nic nie utworzy, nic nie zostawi po sobie, prócz krzyków kilku i sławy marnego skonania!”
― Zygmunt Krasiński, Irydion

“The universe is always working in your favor. Just remember not to come in your own way due to your old belief system.”
― Sanchita Pandey

“A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways―the ways that will never return.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“I was a fool. I thought you learned the old ways by forgetting the new.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“Lady, you must be from around here, right?"
I resent the Lady. "Yes I am, and you?"
"I just drove here from New Jersey. Maybe you could help me with directions? I'm trying to get to Fernandina Beach, my GPS is saying 'no signal.' "
I take out my Florida map from the glove compartment.
The young woman laughs. "That's funny," she says.
"What?"
"I didn't know anyone still used those."
And who's the one who's lost?”
― Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

“Old ways are called history, new ways are the future. One who brings them together, is called the humanizer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune