Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Crowninshield

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

Gary Zukav

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

Gary Hamel

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

Utah Phillips

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Luke Evans

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

Malala Yousafzai

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

Elliott Carter

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

Elaine Paige

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

Edward Lampert

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Edi Rama

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

Emily Oster

The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

Francine Rivers

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Corita Kent

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

Hugh Grant

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

Jane D. Hull

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

Anna Chlumsky

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Albert Brooks

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Amanda Palmer

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Daniel Kahneman

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

Czeslaw Milosz

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

D. H. Lawrence

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

D. H. Lawrence

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

D. H. Lawrence

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

D. H. Lawrence

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

D. H. Lawrence

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

D. H. Lawrence

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Clint Eastwood

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.