Quotes About Change

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, the Duke said. Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.

Fortune passes everywhere.

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.

Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.

Growing older is to grow more wicked.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Can you remember your first taste of spice?" "It tasted like cinnamon." "But never twice the same," he said. "It's like life—it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice produces a learned-flavor reaction. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

This is the fallacy of power: ultimately, it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them.

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!"we say. Then Changer comes

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.