Quotes About Change

Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...

Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen years later, the last tie between them was broken now. All lost, all gone. Nothing lasted, nothing. Even this forty-million-year world that the Oversoul had preserved as if in ice, even it would melt before the fire. Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.

We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.

There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.

When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.

And it's true, thought Valentine. I'm not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am, even as I write down the story of the world. And this world most of all.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing. A pure soul must expose himself to new things every day.

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job. Not proud, sir, said Runnel. But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance.

La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.

Bingwen didn't argue. What good would it do? When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

Ruling the world isn't a chess game," said Peter. "Or if it is, it's a game with a thousand powerful pieces and eight billion pawns, and the pieces keep changing their capabilities, and the gameboard never stays the same. So just how far ahead can you possibly see? All I could do was put myself into a position with the most possible influence, and then exploit whatever opportunities came.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others

All history is the same thing over and over...The technology may change, but the behavior is still human. We are who we are. Individuals learn, grow up, get better, wiser, stronger, healthier, kinder—or the opposite. As a group, though, we keep inventing the same behaviors. Some work, some don't.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Thus a man hates the house they lived in together, because either he does not change it, so that it is as dead as his wife, or because he does change it, so that it is no longer half of their making.

Shadows that children make on the wall," said Petra, "and someone turns the light off." "Or turns a brighter one on," said Alai, "and the shadows disappear.

Humans are very proud of their changes, but every imagined transformation turns out to be a new set of excuses for behaving exactly as the individual has always behaved.> <