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Quotes About Change

he knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all.
~ R. Scott Bakker
While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by the other immensities that framed his present circumstance. Even if there were no Consult, no threat of the Second Apocalypse, he realized, nothing would be the same. Kellhus would change the world, not in the way of an Ajencis or a Triamis, but in the way of an Inri Sejenus. This, Achamian realized, was Year One. A new age of Men.
~ R. Scott Bakker
But you do understand. Think, Leweth. If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.
~ R. Scott Bakker
What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? —
~ R. Scott Bakker
If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.
~ R. Scott Bakker
But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can
~ R. T. Kendall
Good thoughts yield good things. The future, no matter how dark it seems, can always change, as long as the thoughts change.
~ Unknown
Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Yes, we outran them easily," Destiny replied. "It…it's because we're not human anymore. We outran them because we're creatures now.
~ R.L. Stine
I am sorry to say there will be no wedding today.
~ R.L. Stine
He squinted at us. You really believe there might be zombies in Franklin Village? Maybe, I said. We just thought we'd patrol at night and search for them. But that could be dangerous, Trevor said. He leaned toward us. His eyes darted from Alec to me. That could be very dangerous. A chill rolled down my back. He had suddenly changed. His voice deepened. And his words sounded like a warning. Or a threat.
~ R.L. Stine
You must change your life.
~ Unknown
Repentance (Greek, metanoia) means change of mind. So as we get to know God, we get to know ourselves.
~ R.T. Kendall
Silence, and then Eve said, Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
~ Rachel Caine
Oliver laughed - actually laughed.I like this new Claire, he said. You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright. Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.
~ Rachel Caine
life is a work in progress.
~ Rachel Caine
Excuse me? You're a lady? I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
~ Rachel Caine
She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.
~ Rachel Caine
News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.
~ Rachel Caine
Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
~ Rachel Caine
Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.
~ Rachel Caine
The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.
~ Rachel Caine
Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
~ Rachel Caine
To all those who face change without fear. Go forward. To the ever-transforming glory of the public library, without which we would all be diminished. No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments. We are all book lovers. And we all chase the Great Library of Alexandria, one book at a time.
~ Rachel Caine