Change Quotes

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
– Mindy Kaling
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
– Tom Stoppard
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
– Spike Lee
And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
– John Motson
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
– Emma Thompson
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
– Rainn Wilson
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
– Robin Quivers
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
– Jeff Goodell
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
– Fareed Zakaria
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
– John Podhoretz
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
– Paul Hawken
All I want to do is change the world.
– W. Clement Stone
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
– Ronald Reagan
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
– Cate Blanchett
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
– Moliere
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
– Alan Rickman
A zebra does not change its spots.
– Al Gore
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
– Ivor Novello
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
– Garrett Hardin
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
– Mason Cooley
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
– Marilyn Monroe
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
– Nikki Giovanni
A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
– James Levine
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
– Henry A. Wallace
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
– Ivy Compton-Burnett
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
– Daisaku Ikeda
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
– John Malkovich
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
– George Santayana
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
– Marcel Proust
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.
– J. Donald Adams
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.
– Joseph Addison
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.
– Jessica Alba
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
– Woody Allen
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
– Chris Van Allsburg
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.
– Barbara de Angelis
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.
– George Antheil
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.
– Hannah Arendt
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering change that threatens to engulf him.
– Owen Arthur
At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
– Beatrice Arthur
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
– Abdallah II
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.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
– Charles Francis Adams
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.
– Thomas Addison
Religions change, but beer and wine remain.
– Harvey Allen
An award does not change the quality of a book. I'm acutely aware of the deficiencies in all of my work.
– Charles Van Allsburg
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
– Lisa Alther
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.
– Alejandro Amenabar
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
– Richard Bach
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Alec Baldwin
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.
– Antonio Banderas
In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.
– Dave Barry
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.
– Bruce Barton
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.
– Bernard Baruch
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
– Saul Bellow
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
– Tony Benn
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.
– George Benson
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
– Ambrose Bierce
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
– Tony Blair
I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space. And maybe that'll mean that we multiply and just destroy another planet. But you know what? That's mankind. Get used to it. We're not going to change.
– Jolene Blalock
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
– Bill Blass
Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed? Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother? Wasn't there any change?
– Erma Bombeck
Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
– Christopher Bond
Music can change the world because it can change people.
– Bono
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.
– George Boole
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.
– Barbara Boxer
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.
– Allen Boyd
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.
– Paul Bremer
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.
– Robert Bridges
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
– Robert Bridges
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.
– Tom Brokaw
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.
– Phillip Brooks
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.
– William Wells Brown
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
– Dan Brown
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.
– Eric Brown
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
– Jerry Brown
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.
– Luis Bunuel
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
– Edmund Burke
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.
– Richard Burr
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
– William S. Burroughs
Change is the end result of all true learning.
– Leo Buscaglia
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.
– Leo Buscaglia
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.
– Judith Butler
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.
– Michelangelo
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.
– Sai Baba
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.
– Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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.
– Ella Baker
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.
– Ella Baker
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.
– Julian Barbour
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
– Joel A. Barker
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
– Miriam Beard
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.
– Johann Becher
Dozens of meetings, hundreds of man-hours, millions of dollars and months of angst... went into the name change... the most sweeping of changes brought about by the most persnickity attention to detail.
– Lisa Belkin
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
– Anthony Brandt
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
– Jacob M. Braude