Quotes About Change

You're bigger than I remembered, she said stupidly. You too, he said. I also remembered that you were beautiful. Memory does play tricks on us. No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We'd all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted us all to bits and that would be that." "We didn't evolve from neanderthals," said Bean. "Well, it's a good thing we have that little fact squared away," said Petra.

Everything everybody does is a waste of time, until it isn't

Kovan?n yüzeyindeki buzu k?rsalar bile hemen tekrar donaca??n?, ama içeri s?cak bir yere koyduklar?nda, istedikleri gibi buzun çözüleceÄŸini onlara söylemedi.

his Calvinism would not outlast his undergraduate education, though its excision would be long and painful.

The limbic node deep in her brain didn't understand that she no longer lived in a tree, no longer had to panic when she felt herself to be falling.

When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

Hay periodos en que el mundo se reestructura, y en esos períodos las palabras precisas pueden cambiar el mundo.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. Maybe I could have been content. Maybe not.

The Russians stopped being the bad guys back in the twentieth century!

the war that will come now is every bit as bloody." "But you delayed it a few more years," said Verily. "What good is that?" "It's two or three more years of life. Of loving and marrying and having babies. Of buying and selling, of plowing and planting and harvesting, of moving and settling. It will be a different world in two or three years, and those who die in the war will have had that much more life. It's not a small thing, those years.

History is an omelet. The eggs are already broken.

Perhaps someday, confronted by the consequences of your own actions, you might change, but I doubt it. Few who are captured by such a powerful story are ever able to win free of it.

The ship was there. It was there, and still there, unmoving, unchanged. And then it was gone.

It's also like being born," said Ender. "As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world." "What the hell, maybe they can.

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

Everything I hated in a commander, and I'm doing it. Is it some law of human nature you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

History is a chaotic system. The details can shift endlessly, but the overall shape remains constant. Make a small change in the past, and it changes enough details in the present that we would not have come together at exactly this place and time to watch exactly this scene. And yet the great movements of history would be largely unchanged.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

Father had warned Rigg how the rules changed when you traveled far, and he always warned that the bigger the city, the lower the level of civilization, which had seemed to make no sense to Rigg until now.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.