Change Quotes

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
– Shania Twain
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
– Annie Leibovitz
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
– Victoria Woodhull
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
– Camille Paglia
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
– Peter Camejo
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
– Herman Cain
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
– Taylor Swift
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
– Rachel Weisz
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
– Alan Rickman
I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
– Keanu Reeves
I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
– Waylon Jennings
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
– Roy Orbison
I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.
– Katy Perry
I love to watch times change!
– Karl Lagerfeld
I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
– Maria Sharapova
I love change, I need it.
– Rod Stewart
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
– Jackie Chan
I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.
– Jordin Sparks
I like progress but I hate change.
– Jon Bon Jovi
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
– David Bailey
I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
– Sting
I know that my race must change.
– Chief Joseph
I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
– Andrew Cuomo
I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.
– Jim DeMint
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
– John Cleese
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
– Beth Ditto
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.
– Hugh Jackman
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
– Sydney Schanberg
I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.
– Snoop Dogg
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
– Kesha
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
– Gillian Anderson
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
– David Sedaris
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
– Robert Plant
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
– Helena Bonham Carter
I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.
– Rashida Jones
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
– Stephen Hawking
I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.
– Glenn Beck
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
– Damien Hirst
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
– Richard Nelson Bolles
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
– Erica Jong
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
– Kelly Clarkson
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
– Debra Winger
I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
– Rick Perry
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
– Temple Grandin
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
– Elizabeth Warren
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
– Jeanette Winterson
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
– Nick Clegg
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
– James Lovelock
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
– Patti Smith
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
– Richard M. Nixon
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
– Ricky Williams
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
– William Hague
I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
– Rand Paul
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
– James Hillman
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
– Jeanette Winterson
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
– Mark Knopfler
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
– Nicholas Sparks
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
– Julie Walters
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
– William Shatner
I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
– Emma Watson
I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
– Annie Lennox
I don't change. The things around me change.
– Jeremy Renner
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
– Barack Obama
I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
– Sebastian Vettel
I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
– Olivia Thirlby
I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
– Britney Spears
I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
– Katherine Heigl
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
– Al Gore
I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
– Jenny McCarthy
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
– Kid Rock
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
– Danica McKellar
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
– Bob Dylan
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
– Sting
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
– Gabrielle Union
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
– John Grisham
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
– Alice Walker
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
– William Hague
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
– Dan Quayle
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
– Edward James Olmos
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
– Lenny Kravitz
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
– Jose Mourinho
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
– Marilyn Monroe
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
– Steven Cojocaru
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
– Michelle Obama
I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
– LL Cool J
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
– Henry Rollins
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
– Sherri Shepherd
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
– Shirley Manson
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
– Lenny Kravitz
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
– Janet Jackson
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
– Colin Firth
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
– Doug Coupland
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
– Paul Ryan
Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
– Marco Rubio
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
– Doug E. Fresh
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
– Samuel Goldwyn