Quotes about: change

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?
– Chuck Palahniuk
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it is the only way they can really get anything finished.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
– John Podhoretz
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
– Daniel Keys Moran
You put high heels on and you change.
– Manolo Blahnik
You must change in order to survive.
– Pearl Bailey
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
– Allen Klein
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.
– Chris Cooper
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
– Sharron Angle
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
– Shahrukh Khan
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
– Steven Spielberg
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
– Emeril Lagasse
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
– Shimon Peres
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
– Jennifer Lopez
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
– David Miliband
You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
– Nathan Fillion
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
– Nicholas D. Kristof
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
– Charles Schumer
You change with the guys you date.
– Jessica Simpson
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
– Les Brown
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
– Van Morrison
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
– Francesca Annis
You can change friends but not neighbours.
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
– Joel Osteen
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
– Arthur Scargill
Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.
– Enrique Iglesias
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
– Peace Pilgrim
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
– Marcel Proust
Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
– Manal al-Sharif
Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
– Dee Dee Myers
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
– George Gurdjieff
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
– Frank Herbert
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
– Kenneth L. Pike
With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.
– Simon Mainwaring
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
– Barbra Streisand
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
– Alice Cooper
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
– Idris Elba
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
– Max Muller
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
– Jerry Saltz
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
– Miriam Makeba
When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
– Melanie Laurent
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
– AnnaSophia Robb
When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
– Chris Evert
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
– Rupert Murdoch
When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
– Michael Sheen
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
– Carly Fiorina
When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
– Anne M. Mulcahy
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
– Andrew Shue
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
– Robert Rodriguez
When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
– Gwen Stefani
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
– Annette Funicello
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
– Kellan Lutz
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
– Abdullah Ibrahim
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
– John Boyd Orr
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
– Simon Mainwaring
When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.
– Rich Lowry
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
– Sara Blakely
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
– Michael Sheen
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
– Albert Finney
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
– Dee Dee Myers
When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
– Tony Parsons
When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
– Peter Singer
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
– Wynton Marsalis
When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
– Jason Reitman
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
– Vaclav Havel
What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
– Isaac Hanson
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
– Abu Bakar Bashir
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
– Estelle Morris
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
– Malcolm Mclaren
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
– Alice Englert
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
– Harvey Fierstein
What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
– Simon Mainwaring
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
– Jeanne Moreau
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
– Tupac Shakur
What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
– Jonathan Sacks
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.
– Mia Love
Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.
– Jordin Sparks
Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.
– Pat Robertson
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
– Madeleine Albright
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
– Ron Fournier
We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
– Ron Fournier
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
– Jerry Saltz
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
– Rick Warren
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
– John Sununu
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
– Eric Hoffer
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
– Albert Ellis
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
– Alice Walker
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
– Sarah Palin
We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
– Lucy Powell
We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.
– Francois Hollande
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
– Park Geun-hye
We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.
– Mark Hyman
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
– Michael McCaul