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Quotes About 'change'

» Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

» Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

» When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

» Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

» Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

» If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

» Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

» Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

» The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

» When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

» To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

» As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

» Music can change the world because it can change people.

» We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

» You can't jam change down the American people's throat.

» Words are the small change of thought.

» Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

» It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more.

» The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.

» We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

» You change your life by changing your heart.

» The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

» The most useless are those who never change through the years.

» I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

» If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

» There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

» My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

» Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

» I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

» Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

» Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

» You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.

» There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

» Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

» We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

» Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

» You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

» Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

» I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

» It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

» No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

» I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

» It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

» Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

» It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

» Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.

» Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

» Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering change that threatens to engulf him.

» This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

» Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

» Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

» Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

» Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

» Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

» And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

» I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

» If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

» One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

» The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King.

» If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

» It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

» We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

» A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

» I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

» So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

» You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

» Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

» I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

» What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

» You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

» I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

» Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

» If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

» In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

» Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

» If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

» Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

» When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

» You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

» We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

» When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

» The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.

» It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

» We're not trying to change the world; just music.

» What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

» I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

» Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

» My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

» A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

» Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

» Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

» Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

» Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.

» I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

» From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfaltering faith in God and guardian spirits. I often wept myself to sleep after a day of disappointments and worries but woke in the morning singing aloud with the joy of life.I always expected wonderful things to happen to me. In some of my hardest days when everything went wrong with everybody at home and all my manuscripts came back for six weeks at a time without one acceptance, I recall looking out of my little north window upon the lonely road bordered with lonelier Lombardy poplars, and thinking, ‘Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.’ There was so much I wanted. …Once I read a sentence which became a life motto to me. ‘If you haven’t what you like, try to like what you have.’ I bless the author for that phrase it was such a help to me.

» I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

» Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

» That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

» With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

» Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

» No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

» One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

» Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

» If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

» Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

» I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

» Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

» Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

» Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

» If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

» I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

» The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

» If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

» The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

» If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

» The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

» Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.

» You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

» One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problems, can change our whole outlook on the work.

» In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

» All things must change to something new, to something strange.

» Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

» No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

» Change your thoughts and you change your world.

» I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.

» Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24
7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

» Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

» Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

» What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

» Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

» You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

» All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

» I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

» The moment of change is the only poem.

» Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

» Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

» We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

» The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

» The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

» Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

» Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

» No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

» The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

» You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

» Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

» If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

» Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

» Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

» Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

» To change what you get you must change who you are.

» I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.

» President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.

» Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

» A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

» Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

» Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

» No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

» There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

» The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

» How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

» For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

» Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

» The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

» You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

» You must be the change you want to see in the world.

» If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

» I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

» When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

» Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

» Be the change that you want to see in the world.

» The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

» We must become the change we want to see in the world.

» You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

» The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

» I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.

» My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

» One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

» We can only change the world by changing men.

» I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

» Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.

» As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

» Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

» There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

» Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

» Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.

» Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

» I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

» I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

» Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

» In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

» In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

» One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

» Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

» As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

» A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

» I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

» The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

» Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

» When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

» I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

» We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

» We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

» I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.

» I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

» They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

» A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.

» Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

» When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

» Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

» You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

» We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

» Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

» The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

» The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

» There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

» You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

» The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

» Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

» I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

» Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

» I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

» Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

» If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

» You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

» It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

» I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

» Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

» The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

» To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

» By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

» Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

» I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

» Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I will not really attempt to describe this long period of time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply omitting to give the details of truly personal type.

» I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

» Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

» In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

» A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

» There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

» I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

» Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

» For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

» STALE is basically a weekly: most articles will appear for a week. Elements will change constantly. You will lose track a lot. You may be reading an article one day only to find that the end has been removed while you were reading the beginning.

» We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon - to anticipate it and plan for it.

» The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

» The hotel was a forcing house for situations every shade of behavior in public had significance, so that the choice of a seat could constitute a victory or a reverse, and a few words aside change the complexion of half the day.

» Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

» Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

» In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

» Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

» We change ideas like neckties.

» The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

» Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

» There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

» It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

» So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

» All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

» All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

» I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

» Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

» According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

» Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

» It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

» Even God cannot change the past.

» Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

» Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

» Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

» The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.

» We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

» A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

» Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

» One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

» In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

» Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

» We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

» I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

» We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

» If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

» Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

» Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

» I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

» Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

» A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

» It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

» No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

» The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

» Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

» Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

» Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

» Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

» Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

» Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

» The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.

» There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

» Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

» We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

» Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

» Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

» Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

» For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

» Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

» Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

» The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

» The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

» I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

» Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

» God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

» God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

» God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

» The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.

» Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

» I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

» Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

» Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

» In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

» What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

» Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.

» Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

» I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

» If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

» Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

» A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

» To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

» They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

» There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

» Don't fear change - embrace it.

» The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.

» It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

» The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

» Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

» Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

» We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

» A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

» Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

» But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

» Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

» The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

» I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

» If someone were to prove to me-right this minute-that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

» I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.

» Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

» We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'

» The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

» I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

» An award does not change the quality of a book. I'm acutely aware of the deficiencies in all of my work.

» For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

» You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

» I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

» Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

» If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

» Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

» You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment.

» I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

» Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

» I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

» Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

» If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

» It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

» We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

» Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

» We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

» What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

» History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

» I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

» I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

» Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

» Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

» I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

» As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

» I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

» The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

» I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

» I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

» People change and forget to tell each other.

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

» Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

» There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

» And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

» Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

» Our children change us…whether they live or not.

» A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

» He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

» None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

» Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

» O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

» In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.

» Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

» Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

» When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

» Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

» A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

» The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

» In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

» Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

» If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

» The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

» We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

» Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

» The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

» Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

» You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

» Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

» I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

» What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

» A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

» Change Management will be essential in all money matters. With profits from sugar continuing to decline and with ecological, aesthetic and employment factors in the industry all very relevant, our management of the change process will be critical to how the ultimate decision we take in relation to sugar impacts upon our economy and our own way of life here in St. Kitts & Nevis.

» The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

» I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

» That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

» The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

» Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

» It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

» 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.

» We ought to change the legend on our money from In God We Trust to In Money We Trust; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

» You open your box and select a new fly, then lengthen the tippet before the next try, change your position to help with the cast, and hope you have made the right decision at last, now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.

» Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

» Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

» Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

» Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

» There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

» Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children.

» Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

» All appears to change when we change.

» Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

» What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

» The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

» Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

» We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

» Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

» I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

» We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

» I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

» We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

» To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

» I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

» To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

» We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

» Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

» A quote is a personal possession and you have no right to change it.

» Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

» I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

» If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

» Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

» It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

» Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

» I truly believe that if we put the strength of our hearts and minds together that we can change prejudice, and that my generation of kids can grow up appreciating the glorious rainbow of diversity.

» This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

» If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

» Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

» Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

» The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

» Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

» If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

» Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

» If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

» The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

» We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

» We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

» Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

» We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

» Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

» Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

» The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

» I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

» To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

» Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

» I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

» We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

» Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

» I don't write hard SF - that is, technology-driven science fiction. I don't read this stuff, either. I like to read, and to write, SF about people, the consequences of technological and social change on individuals or groups of individuals. Fantasy and hard SF aren't about these things.

» Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

» Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

» You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

» Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

» If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

» The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

» I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

» The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

» My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

» If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

» Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

» Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

» Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

» Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

» I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

» In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.

» One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

» Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

» Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

» Anger is not going to change this country and do what needs to be done for America.

» The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

» The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

» What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

» At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

» What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

» If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

» The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

» The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

» The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

» Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

» You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

» I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from Thank God it's Friday to Thank God it's Monday. If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.

» The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

» Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

» We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

» The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

» I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.

» I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

» If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

» The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

» I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

» If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

» Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it is the only way they can really get anything finished.

» If death meant leaving the stage long enough just to change costumes and become a new character, would you speed up? Or slow down?

» I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

» Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

» If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

» A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

» Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

» I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

» Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

» The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

» Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

» As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

» I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

» They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

» When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

» The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

» Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

» The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

» One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

» Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

» Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

» The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

» In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

» With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

» He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

» We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

» Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

» Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

» I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.