Change Quotes

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

when love is strong enough it can even cause Fate to change her course

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

Satire doesn't effect change.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

The best way to create cost overruns in any military acquisition is to change course midstream. That is exactly what Donald Trump wants to do here.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

Things change, but they stay the same.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

I do think women change the discourse in Senate and I think it is more civil when women are involved.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Take one day at a time. Allow yourself to change.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.