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I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
~Boris Becker
~Boris Becker
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
~River Phoenix
~River Phoenix
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
~Dr. Ana M Guzman
~Dr. Ana M Guzman
I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.
~Stanley Tucci
~Stanley Tucci
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
~William Brewster
~William Brewster
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
~Ann Richards
~Ann Richards
I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
~Buck Owens
~Buck Owens
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
~E. B. White
~E. B. White
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
~Katherine Dunham
~Katherine Dunham
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
~Ellen Goodman
~Ellen Goodman
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
~David Sedaris
~David Sedaris
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
~Benjamin Harrison
~Benjamin Harrison
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
~Liz Carpenter
~Liz Carpenter
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
~Sting
~Sting
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
~Roy Orbison
~Roy Orbison
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
~Robert Evans
~Robert Evans
I never saw a woman to come into one of our mining camps in California but her mere presence effected a change in the conduct of all the men there.
~Leland Stanford
~Leland Stanford
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
~Betty Friedan
~Betty Friedan
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
~Shirley MacLaine
~Shirley MacLaine
I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.
~Meir Kahane
~Meir Kahane
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
~Tom Stoppard
~Tom Stoppard
I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
~Kieran Culkin
~Kieran Culkin
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
~Vanessa Kerry
~Vanessa Kerry
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
~Jonathan Shapiro
~Jonathan Shapiro
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
~Margaret Thatcher
~Margaret Thatcher
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
~Michael Phelps
~Michael Phelps
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
~Michael Phelps
~Michael Phelps
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
~Sylvia Plath
~Sylvia Plath
I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
~Avril Lavigne
~Avril Lavigne
I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
~Andrew Lloyd Webber
~Andrew Lloyd Webber
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
~Penelope Lively
~Penelope Lively
I've always felt that it's necessary for me to add to the sound, as on the Capitol albums with strings or brass, rather than to change it entirely.
~George Shearing
~George Shearing
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
~Kevin Costner
~Kevin Costner
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
~Eldridge Cleaver
~Eldridge Cleaver
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
~Professor Irwin Corey
~Professor Irwin Corey
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
~Gail Sheehy
~Gail Sheehy
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
~Jacques Yves Cousteau
~Jacques Yves Cousteau
If we keep on doin' what we always done, we'll keep on gettin' what we always got.
~Barbara Lyons
~Barbara Lyons
If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.
~Francis Maude
~Francis Maude
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
~Ian Botham
~Ian Botham
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
~Jeanette Winterson
~Jeanette Winterson
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
~Dan Millman
~Dan Millman
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
~Maya Angelou
~Maya Angelou
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
~Marion Wright Edelman
~Marion Wright Edelman
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
~Lao Tzu
~Lao Tzu
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
~Ann Richards
~Ann Richards
In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
~Benjamin Disraeli
~Benjamin Disraeli
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
~Benjamin Disraeli
~Benjamin Disraeli
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
~Josiah Strong
~Josiah Strong
In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
~Lena Horne
~Lena Horne
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
~Georg Simmel
~Georg Simmel
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
~Itzhak Perlman
~Itzhak Perlman
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~Charles Darwin
~Charles Darwin
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
~Jonathan Davis
~Jonathan Davis
It was not so long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods.
~Geraldine Ferraro
~Geraldine Ferraro
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
~Bill Hicks
~Bill Hicks
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
~James Gordon
~James Gordon
It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
~Geraldine Chaplin
~Geraldine Chaplin
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
~Rachel Carson
~Rachel Carson
Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
~Peter Garrett
~Peter Garrett
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
~Jon Bon Jovi
~Jon Bon Jovi
Modern invention has banished the spinning-wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
~Susan B. Anthony
~Susan B. Anthony
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
~Robert Frost
~Robert Frost
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
~Juliette Binoche
~Juliette Binoche
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
~Friedrich Durrenmatt
~Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
~Issey Miyake
~Issey Miyake
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
~Andrzej Wajda
~Andrzej Wajda
One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
~Dean Koontz
~Dean Koontz
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
~Peter Steele
~Peter Steele
One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
~Lee Scott
~Lee Scott
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
~Arthur Levitt
~Arthur Levitt
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
~Henry Ward Beecher
~Henry Ward Beecher
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
~Viktor Yushchenko
~Viktor Yushchenko
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
~David Wilkerson
~David Wilkerson
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
~James Monroe
~James Monroe
Over the last 20 years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
~Anna Quindlen
~Anna Quindlen
Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
~Hugh Macleod
~Hugh Macleod
Perhaps now and then a castaway on a lonely desert island dreads the thought of being rescued.
~Sarah Orne Jewett
~Sarah Orne Jewett
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
~Gaylord Perry
~Gaylord Perry
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.
~Jeff Miller
~Jeff Miller
Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.
~Glenn Tipton
~Glenn Tipton
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