Change Quotes

Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

You can't change the system through violence.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Once you want something, everything changes.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.

When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.

Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.