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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
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
~William Ames
~William Ames
Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to change a monitor between portrait and landscape modes.
~Robert Patterson
~Robert Patterson
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
~Hermann Ebbinghaus
~Hermann Ebbinghaus
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
~Nikos Kazantzakis
~Nikos Kazantzakis
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
~Oscar Robertson
~Oscar Robertson
Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
~Donatella Versace
~Donatella Versace
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
~Francis Wright
~Francis Wright
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
~Freda Adler
~Freda Adler
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
~Cab Calloway
~Cab Calloway
That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.
~Mary Hansen
~Mary Hansen
That's the risk you take if you change:that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
~Lisa Alther
~Lisa Alther
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that ew each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
~Hillary Clinton
~Hillary Clinton
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
~Dorothy Denning
~Dorothy Denning
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
~Penelope Lively
~Penelope Lively
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
~Confucius
~Confucius
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
~Diane Sawyer
~Diane Sawyer
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.
~Tim Yeo
~Tim Yeo
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
~Todd Gitlin
~Todd Gitlin
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
~Hugh Macleod
~Hugh Macleod
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
~Darrell Royal
~Darrell Royal
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
~Mike Ferguson
~Mike Ferguson
The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
~Tony Oliva
~Tony Oliva
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
~Karl Marx
~Karl Marx
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
~Angela Merkel
~Angela Merkel
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
~Georg Simmel
~Georg Simmel
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~R. D. Laing
~R. D. Laing
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
~Max Lerner
~Max Lerner
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
~Harold Pinter
~Harold Pinter
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
~Seth MacFarlane
~Seth MacFarlane
The universal human yearning for something premanent, enduring, without shadow of change.
~Willa Cather
~Willa Cather
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
~Bela Lugosi
~Bela Lugosi
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
~Harold MacMillan
~Harold MacMillan
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~Charles Kettering
~Charles Kettering
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
~Sidney Madwed
~Sidney Madwed
Then I went on to win worlds, which added to the change in my life. Winning that was outstanding, but I skated better at the nationals.
~Debi Thomas
~Debi Thomas
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
~Ann Oakley
~Ann Oakley
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
~Ferdinand Marcos
~Ferdinand Marcos
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
~Thomas Foran
~Thomas Foran
There is not sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela
~Nelson Mandela
There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
~Charles Swindoll
~Charles Swindoll
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
~Ernest Gaines
~Ernest Gaines
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
~Steve Odland
~Steve Odland
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~Andy Warhol
~Andy Warhol
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
~James Lipton
~James Lipton
Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
~Grace Slick
~Grace Slick
This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.
~Charlotte Ross
~Charlotte Ross
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
~Real Live Preacher
~Real Live Preacher
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
~Charles Caleb Colton
~Charles Caleb Colton
Today, everything is accelerating change, with one incredibly important exception. There has been no loss of institutional float.
~Dee Hock
~Dee Hock
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
~Ramsay Clark
~Ramsay Clark
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
~Willard Van Orman Quine
~Willard Van Orman Quine
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
~Harrison Ford
~Harrison Ford
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
~Barbara Jordan
~Barbara Jordan
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.
~Dan Marino
~Dan Marino
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~Carl Jung
~Carl Jung
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
~Lynn Hall
~Lynn Hall
We have to change directions back to the period of time when we made the tough choices, eliminated the deficit and created the surplus.
~Bobby Scott
~Bobby Scott
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
~Stephen Covey
~Stephen Covey
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We of course had big plans to change everything because we wanted to be like a rock band, like the Black Crows, do a different set every night.
~Kevin McDonald
~Kevin McDonald
We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.
~Davy Jones
~Davy Jones
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
~Abraham Maslow
~Abraham Maslow
What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
~Isaac Hanson
~Isaac Hanson
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
~Wayne Coyne
~Wayne Coyne
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.
~Jane Fonda
~Jane Fonda
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.
~Robin Leach
~Robin Leach
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
~Muriel Fox
~Muriel Fox
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
~Barbara Hall
~Barbara Hall
Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
~Paul Hoffman
~Paul Hoffman
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
~John Hutton
~John Hutton
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
~Arthur Scargill
~Arthur Scargill
You can't expect the press to stand still and not to want to change their minds, and develop something you and I haven't noticed.
~Ninette de Valois
~Ninette de Valois
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
~Van Morrison
~Van Morrison
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
~Jim Rohn
~Jim Rohn
You don't have to be afraid of change You don't have to worry about what's been taken away. Just look to see what's been added.
~Jackie Greer
~Jackie Greer
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