Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Mason Cooley

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

Mason Cooley

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Mason Cooley

I resist change even as I call for it.

Mason Cooley

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Mason Cooley

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Mason Cooley

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Michael Gartner

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Chang

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Michael Connelly

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

Michael Connelly

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

Melody Beattie

...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from nega­tive to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.

Michael Josephson

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Terrell Owens

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

Ted Cruz

I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

Thad Cochran

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

Terry Pratchett

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Margaret Mead

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

Margaret J. Wheatley

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Michael Bloomberg

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Melinda Gates

It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

Melinda Gates

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

Melinda Gates

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Michelle Bachelet

The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.

Michael Tolkin

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tippett

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Michael Parenti

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.