Change Quotes
If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.
Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.
I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.
Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.
For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.