Quotes about change
change wall long
I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?" Jerry Seinfeld
change order people
It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish. Jill Johnston
change sympathy sweat
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
change children years
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. Jennifer Jason Leigh
change good-life life-changing
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. Jennifer Love Hewitt
change thinking order
I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being. Jeffrey R. Immelt
change cost use
Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that. Jeffrey Sachs
change kids talking
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. James Caan
change literature human-nature
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. James A. Baldwin
change writing reality
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. James A. Baldwin
change writing reality
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it. James A. Baldwin
change self giving
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. James A. Baldwin
change children acceptance
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James A. Baldwin
change people self-improvement
People can cry much easier than they can change. James A. Baldwin
change past would-be
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. Jackson Browne
change life-changing responsibility
When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives. Gates McFadden
change giving looks
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. George C. Wallace
change research-and-development world
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. Christine Todd Whitman
change men thinking
I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that. Chris Rock
change easier great-change
Great changes are easier than small ones. Francis Bacon
change time acceptance
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon
change country jobs
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.'
change wisdom past
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
change art memories
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. George Santayana
change children persistence
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. George Santayana
change moving world
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. George Santayana
change believe fighting
Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way. George Pataki
change creativity character
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. George Pataki
change party answers
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. George Orwell
change dream long
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity. Friedrich Nietzsche
change life-changing snakes
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Nietzsche
change broken-heart liars
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. Franklin P. Adams
change book long
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago. Franz Grillparzer