Change Quotes

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.

You could change into a goat and it would still apply.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We dont need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?

People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.