Quotes About Change

Live long enough, you see everything ruined.

There are those at both ends of the social scale who would have us change direction!" Curnsbick was shouting. "Those who would not only try to dam the river of progress but have it flow uphill! Who would break, burn and murder in the name of dragging us back into a glorious past that never truly was. A place of ignorance, superstition, squalor and fear. A place of darkness! But there will be no going

No podemos corregir las necedades de cada idiota, igual que no podemos corregir la marea. —

My congratulations on leaving the legal profession and becoming a respectable member of the community.

And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

If men can change like that.' And Monza snapped her fingers in his face. 'That's the only way they do change, ain't it?' His one eye stayed on her. 'If things change enough around 'em? Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

Those were the times. Those were still the times, and maybe always would be.

Strange, isn't it? You keep having to check how disgusting it is. Then, one day, you check and you find you actually like it. Soon after, no other drink will quite scratch that itch. I've often felt that people are the same.

But laws did not appear at all the rigid pillars they once had. If the Great Change had proved anything, it was that—with enough force, with enough fear—one could bend them into whatever knots one pleased.

Only the direction of the treason had changed.

The dead save me from the fucking young.' 'No getting away from 'em, sadly,' muttered Clover. 'The older you get, the more of 'em there are.

You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don't seem like people at all no more, but something else.

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

But I suppose regrets at least prevent one from repeating the same mistakes.

Great folk are great 'cause they plant new footsteps. Not 'cause they blunder through the same mistakes some other bastards made.

What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar's arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.

It was better not to mention things unless you were sure of the right language. Every day brought new wrong words to avoid. New ideas at odds with the Great Change. Everyone was free to say what they wanted now, of course. You just had to be careful in case it got you hanged.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx

I miss you,' said Rikke. Said it to both of them. But she wasn't sure whether she missed them, or she missed who she'd been when she was with them.

I wish I'd met you sooner,' he said. 'Things might be different.' 'You didn't and they're not. So let's take what we can get , eh?

El valor puede obtenerse de muchos lugares y estar compuesto de muchos elementos diversos, de tal modo que en un momento determinado es posible que el cobarde de ayer se convierta en el héroe de mañana.