Quotes About Change

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

He's taking the change well? She asked. Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

Our gods should mature as we mature.

Sje?anje nikada ne obnavlja stvarnost. Ono je samo preure?uje. Sva ta preure?enja mijenjaju original, postaju?i na taj na?in vanjski okviri za preporuke koje neizbježno brzo propadaju.

For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

A finger's touch had been known to topple civilizations.

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

And he thought: Growing older is to grow more wicked.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.' That

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions

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 and throws our old ideas away. —THE ZENSUFI MASTER

Le esplosioni sono anche compressioni del tempo. I mutamenti osservabili nell'universo naturale sono tutti esplosivi, entro certi limiti e sotto certi punti di vista; altrimenti non li notereste. Un mutamento continuo e uniforme, se sufficientemente rallentato, non verrebbe notato da osservatori il cui arco di osservazione, nel tempo, è troppo breve. Perciò, io vi dico che ho visto mutamenti che voi non avreste mai notato.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin – only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.

You'll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —

La burocrazia distrugge l'iniziativa. Poche sono le cose che i burocrati odiano più delle innovazioni, specialmente quelle innovazioni che producano risultati migliori delle vecchie abitudini. I miglioramenti fanno sempre sembrare inetti quelli che sono in cima al mucchio. A chi piace sentirsi inetto?

My lungs taste the air of Time Blown past falling sands….

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

E la vittoria in quel giorno si cambiò in lutto per tutto il popolo, perché il popolo seppe, in quel giorno, che il re piangeva suo figlio.»

Gli storici esercitano un grande potere, e alcuni di loro lo sanno. Essi creano il passato, cambiandolo per adeguarlo alle proprie interpretazioni. Così, cambiano anche il futuro.