People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. Paulo Coelho
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break. Pearl S. Buck
There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. Tony Blair
Your years will still remain the same whether you laugh or cry. Japanese Proverb
The less things change, the more they remain the same. Sicilian Proverb