Eoin Colfer Quotes

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

Some of the decisions that you make are not permanent.

Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.

I won't stay in Al Ain. I'm looking and listening for other options.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.