Quotes about Change
Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.
— Francine Rivers
Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
— Frank Herbert
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
— Frank Herbert
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
— Frank Herbert
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
— Frank Herbert
In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.
— Frank Herbert
This is the fallacy of power: ultimately, it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
— Frank Herbert
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.
— Frank Herbert
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
— Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
— Frank Herbert
The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.
— Frank Herbert
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
— Frank Herbert