Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

William Feather

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

William Irwin Thompson

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

William Least Heat-Moon

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

Walter Scott

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Walter Isaacson

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

Winona LaDuke

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

Winifred Holtby

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

Winston Churchill

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Winston Churchill

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

William S. Burroughs

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William McDonough

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

William J. H. Boetcker

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

Woody Guthrie

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Woodrow Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Wilma Rudolph

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

Wim Wenders

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

William Throsby Bridges

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

W. Clement Stone

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Zora Neale Hurston

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

Zach Wamp

With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

William H. Seward

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

William Dean Howells

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Walter Pater

Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Raleigh

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Wayne Dyer

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Wayne Dyer

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Cunningham

I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.