Dean Devlin Quotes

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

Fate keeps on happening.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Some people will never change.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Those who never retract their opinions, love themselves more than they love truth.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system.

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.