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Quotes About Change

Only that which can change can continue.
~ James P. Carse
Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.
~ James P. Carse
Nature does not change; it has no inside or outside. It is therefore not possible to travel through it. All travel is therefore change within the traveler, and it is for that reason that travelers are always somewhere else. To travel is to grow.
~ James P. Carse
Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.
~ James Patrick Kelly
At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.
~ James Patterson
Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to
~ James Patterson
Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!
~ James Patterson
They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.
~ James Patterson
You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.
~ James Patterson
And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.
~ James Patterson
Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant: They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.
~ James Patterson
You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.
~ James Patterson
It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.
~ James Patterson
I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, How are you feeling today, Tandy? and I responded I'm not
~ James Patterson
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.
~ James Patterson
But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it.
~ James Patterson
But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
~ James Patterson
Speed never killed anyone! It's suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.
~ James Patterson
Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.
~ James Patterson
I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because now, the magic is everywhere.
~ James Patterson
To just lie there and feel vulnerable, and think about everything that had just happened between us, and wonder how it had changed things, and wonder when I had started to love him so much, so painfully, and feel how terrified I was and how elated, and how every cell of my body felt so alive. It was pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to a girl. I highly recommend it.
~ James Patterson
Maybe you'll learn something about life beyond Batman.
~ James Patterson
Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that changed the course of my life forever.
~ James Patterson
I wanted an endless summer with you. But then darkness always comes doesn't it? Just a fact of life, i guess
~ James Patterson