Change Quotes

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
– Daniel Keys Moran
You put high heels on and you change.
– Manolo Blahnik
You must change in order to survive.
– Pearl Bailey
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.
– Chris Cooper
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
– Steven Spielberg
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
– Emeril Lagasse
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
– Shimon Peres
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
– Jennifer Lopez
You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
– Nathan Fillion
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
– Charles Schumer
You change with the guys you date.
– Jessica Simpson
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
– Les Brown
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
– Van Morrison
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
– Francesca Annis
You can change friends but not neighbours.
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
– Joel Osteen
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
– Arthur Scargill
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
– Peace Pilgrim
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
– Marcel Proust
Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
– Dee Dee Myers
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
– George Gurdjieff
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
– Frank Herbert
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
– Shunryu Suzuki
With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.
– Simon Mainwaring
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
– Max Muller
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
– Miriam Makeba
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
– Rupert Murdoch
When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
– Michael Sheen
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
– Carly Fiorina
When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
– Anne M. Mulcahy
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
– Andrew Shue
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
– Robert Rodriguez
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
– Annette Funicello
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
– John Boyd Orr
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
– Simon Mainwaring
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
– Sara Blakely
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
– Michael Sheen
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
– Dee Dee Myers
When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
– Tony Parsons
When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
– Peter Singer
When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
– Jason Reitman
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
– Vaclav Havel
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
– Harvey Fierstein
What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
– Simon Mainwaring
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
– Tupac Shakur
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
– Jonathan Sacks
Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.
– Jordin Sparks
Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.
– Pat Robertson
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
– Madeleine Albright
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
– Ron Fournier
We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
– Ron Fournier
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
– Rick Warren
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
– Eric Hoffer
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
– Albert Ellis
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
– Alice Walker
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
– Sarah Palin
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
– George A. Sheehan
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
– Steven Tyler
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
– R. D. Laing
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
– Stephen King
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
– Jacques Delors
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
– William Hague
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
– David Cameron
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
– Freeman Dyson
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
– Vivienne Westwood
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
– Karen Armstrong
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
– James Hillman
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
– John Wooden
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
– Naguib Mahfouz
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
– Christopher Lasch
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
– Joan D. Vinge
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
– Bill Gates
Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
– Dee Dee Myers
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
– A. C. Benson
Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
– Peter Schuyler
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
– William Hague
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
– Christina Ricci
Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.
– Marco Rubio
True change takes place in the imagination.
– Thomas Moore
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
– John Walters
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
– Tom Robbins
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
– Vera Wang
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
– Henri Bergson
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
– William James
To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
– Tommy Chong
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
– Walt Disney
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
– Jesse Jackson
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
– Blaise Pascal
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.
– Jeff Bridges
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
– Elvis Presley
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
– Tony Campolo
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
– Charles Baudelaire