Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

Matthew Fox

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

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.

Michel de Montaigne

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Michel de Montaigne

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.