Change Quotes

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

You can't change when you're defensive.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.

We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Application of your faith will change your life

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

The days are long, but the years are short.

To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

[Mrs. Teasdale]: He's had a change of heart. [Groucho]: A lot of good that'll do him. He's still got the same face.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.