Poul Anderson Quotes

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

Football, like life, is about change.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

None of us are what we once were.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.