Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meyer

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Joyce Meyer

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

Kate Green

We make ourselves up as we go.

Kate Millett

A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

Kate Millett

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Lawrence Taylor

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Lauren Bacall

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

John Kasich

I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger, not a (typical) politician ... but somebody that's going to go in, do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strength in our military as well.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Josh Billings

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

Ossie Davis

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.

Oswald Mosley

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

June Jordan

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Julie Walters

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Paul Kagame

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.

John Perry Barlow

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

Martin Luther

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

Martin Luther

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Marilyn Ferguson

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Marilyn Ferguson

The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.

Nick Cave

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.

Ovid

All things change, nothing perishes.

Paul Bremer

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 Bowles

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Marya Mannes

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Martha Beck

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Marshall McLuhan

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuhan

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Margery Allingham

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Paul Hawken

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Paul Hawken

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

Patrick Leahy

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.

Judd Gregg

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