Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Spencer Johnson

If you don't change, you will become extinct.

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Sigourney Weaver

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

Shirley Jones

There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

Sergio Marchionne

To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.

Richard Branson

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Robert Anthony

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

Robert Adams

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

Tim Roth

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Tim Roth

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

Steven Wright

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

Robert Bridges

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

Tom Vilsack

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Thomas Adams

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Victoria Woodhull

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

Vernor Vinge

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Vernon Howard

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Richard Bach

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

Robert Frost

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Robert Frost

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Rick Mercer

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Richard Wagner

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Richard E. Byrd

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Rene Daumal

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Rene Descartes

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

Thomas More

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Thomas More

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

Thomas Hoving

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

Samantha Morton

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.