“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”
Source: Polgara the Sorceress
“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”
Source: The Candymakers
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Doris, Chapter 19, p. 247
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“Kristin, nothing ever does change.”
I jerked a thumb back at the crowd outside. “You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves. You’ll always have people like Kawahara and the Bancrofts to push their buttons and cash in on the program. People like you to make sure the game runs smoothly and the rules don’t get broken too often. And when the Meths want to break the rules themselves, they’ll send people like Trepp and me to do it. That’s the truth, Kristin. It’s been the truth since I was born a hundred and fifty years ago, and from what I read in the history books, it’s never been any different. Better get used to it.”
Epilogue (p. 524)
Altered Carbon (2002)
“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
L.J. Smith
(1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Buckminster Fuller
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“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Variant: If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e