‘... I dearly wished I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.’ (ISWM)
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'Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.' (HFS)
'The world turns, your reverence, and we must spin with it.' (TT)
'But now, apparently, we're in modern times.'
'That's what they say,' murmured Granny. 'Well, madam, I've never taken too much notice of them. Fifty years later they never seem so modern at all.' (CJ) People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. (N)
'What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn.' (LL)
Over Holy Wood the stars were out. They were huge balls of hydrogen heated to millions of degrees, so hot they could not even burn. Many of them would swell enormously before they died, and then shrink to tiny, resentful dwarfs remembered only by sentimental astronomers. In the meantime, they glowed because of metamorphoses beyond the reach of alchemists, and turned mere boring elements into pure light. (MP)
The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die. (MP)
He’d wanted changes. It was just that he’d wanted things to stay the same, as well. (P)
So much for time flowing past, he thought glumly. It might do that everywhere else, but not here. Here it just piles up, like snow. (P)
“People never learn anything in this place,” she’d said. “They only remember things.” (P)
That’s old Twoflower. Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. And treads on it. It’s right what Cohen says. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect. (LF)
Scientific revolutions don’t change the universe. They change how humans interpret it. (JD)
'The world is changing and it needs its shepherds and sometimes its butchers.' (RS)
... he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. (RS)
‘What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together.’ (Sn)
The Nac Mac Feegle could be pretty worrying to those who did not know them very well, although now she thought about it, they could be pretty worrying however long you had known them; a Feegle in your life very soon changed it. (ISWM)
'… the leopard can change his shorts …' (UA)
'…what the wise man cannot change he must channel.' (UA)
'Words are important. And when there is a critical mass of them, they change the nature of the universe.' (GP)
The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything ... (MR)
Of course, all magic changed the world in some way, wizards thought there was no other use for it – they didn’t truck with the idea of leaving the world as it was and changing the people... (ER)
Once you know things, you’re a different person. You can’t help it. (Wings)
Every world is full of places like Twoshirts. They are places to come from, not go to. (HFS)
'Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can’t possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.' (J)
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