Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Brodsky

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Neil Tennant

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

Neil Young

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Rachel Maddow

I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Newt Gingrich

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Nhat Hanh

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Mary Robinson

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.

Marquis de Sade

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis de Sade

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Nikki Reed

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.

Nikki Giovanni

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Mark Twain

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Nicholas Stern

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food

Nicholas Sparks

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Nicholas Sparks

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

Neal A. Maxwell

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

Muhammad Ali

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Oscar Wilde

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

Mae West

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Madonna Ciccone

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

Lydia M. Child

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

Lucinda Williams

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Lucretius

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Louis Kronenberger

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Louis L'Amour

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Michael Jackson

What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.

Michael Jackson

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change