Quotes About Change

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn't mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.

I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that.

Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage... As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

So he believed. Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

Lo ves? Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores, hacen juegos con la causa y el efecto, cuando el asunto es que hay períodos en los que el mundo cambia, y la voz precisa en el lugar preciso puede mover al mundo

Human beings remain grubs all the lives.

you might change the props and the actors, the play of human history is always the same

the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

They did not wait so eagerly for each new transmission from the ansible; the names that were famous on earth meant little to them now.

I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.