Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Paul VI

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Nelson Mandela

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

Nelson Mandela

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Nelson Mandela

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Margaret Atwood

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Kenny Rogers

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Kelly Corrigan

You have to speak your dream out loud.

Margaret Thatcher

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

Margaret Thatcher

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Mark Twain

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mark Twain

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Paul Robeson

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

Paris Hilton

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Lillian Hellman

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Learned Hand

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Laurence J. Peter

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

Lauren Oliver

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Lauren Oliver

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Pablo Picasso

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

Paul Hudson

Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

Paul Clark

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Oscar Wilde

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.