That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.
- Joe Abercrombie
He didn't operate on the same frequency as everyone else. On one hand, he was more dangerous than anyone I'd ever met.
He could slip into a room, kill you with a spatula, and be out of town before anyone knew about it. On the other, he was the most pure, untarnished soul I'd ever come across. It was an odd mix so uniquely Kale, and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.
- Jus Accardo
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
- Diane Ackerman
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
- Sheldon Adelson
And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.
- James Agee
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way.
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.
- Paulo Coelho
The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
- Jodi Picoult
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali
I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.
- Cassandra Clare
I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
- Gillian Anderson
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
- Marc Andreessen
Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst
But you got to change it
On the inside first
To be satisfied
- Van Morrison
There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.
And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.
So you watch yourself about complaining.
What you're supposed to do
when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
- Rudolf Arnheim
All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.
- Diana Athill
It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.
- Melina Marchetta
It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
- Steve Maraboli
Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
You write in order to change the world... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
- Oscar Wilde
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
- Bernard Baruch
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
- Abu Bakar Bashir
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.
- Alison Bechdel
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.
- John Steinbeck
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
- John Berger
I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.
- Lewis Black
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.
- Isak Dinesen
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
- Marc Bloch
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
- Edward Bond
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
- Bono
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
- Marcus J Borg
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
- Ann Brashares
We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.
- Geraldine Brooks
You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.
- Scott Brooks
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
- Terry Brooks
The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.
- Nicholas Sparks
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
- Nicholas Sparks
Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
- Nicholas Sparks
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion... everything slides off... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
- Bill Bryson
Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke
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
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
- Cab Calloway
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
- Joseph Campbell
It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change itself becomes unchangeable. If the change-worshipper wishes to estimate his own progress, he must be sternly loyal to the ideal of change; he must not begin to flirt gaily with the ideal of monotony. Progress itself cannot progress
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...
As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage
- Orson Scott Card
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
- Helena Bonham Carter
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
- Stephen King
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
- Stephen King
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.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
- Hillary Clinton
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.
- J M Coetzee
The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It's not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today. - Publisher Weekly
- Susane Colasanti
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.
- Chris Colfer
I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.
- Cat Cora
But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
- John Cornyn
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
- Jim Rohn
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
The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It's what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it.
- Kristen Crockett
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
- Anthony J Dangelo
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
- Harrison Ford
Know that change is always challenged! When you decide that you want to make a change, it is the way of the universe to throw obstacles in our way. It is like we are being tested to see how serious we really are about what it is we have said! See it for what it is, don't get discouraged & always keep going!
- Gala Darling
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
- Richard Dawkins
Maybe you like being unhappy so much, you wouldn't do anything to change it.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
- Wade Davis
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
- Joe Eszterhas
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
- Daisy Donovan
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.
- Rick Warren
Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it
- Henry James
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer's voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation.
I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can't remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It's all in puddles and ripples. That's what time is for me.
- Dave Eggers
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
- Ben Elton
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you -finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
- Anne Enright
The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.
- Eve Ensler
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
- Medgar Evers
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
- Frantz Fanon
I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.
- Rio Ferdinand
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
- Jasper Fforde
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Ernst Fischer
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
- Malcolm Fraser
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
- Robert Fulghum
The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absarb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattel and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.
- Alexandra Fuller
Read and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
- Cornelia Funke
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
- Lady Gaga
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
- Barack Obama
all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
- Barack Obama
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
- Barack Obama
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
- George R R Martin
A zebra does not change its spots.
- Al Gore
People tend to focus on the things that they don't like about themselves. While that's important for change, it's equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It's a balancing act.
- Tom Giaquinto
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
- Barry Gibb
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
- Seth Godin
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.
- Mike Gordon
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
- Nicole Green
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
- Stanislav Grof
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
- William Hague
Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.
- Shannon Hale
The constitution of our country says that all men are created equal, but it's a lie. I'll never be able to make a jump shot like Magic Johnson, or drive a car like Mario Andretti, or paint like Picasso. We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it. - A Lick of Frost
- Laurell K Hamilton
We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.
- Laurell K Hamilton
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
- Stephen Harper
What other people think of you is none of your business," she says. "You can't change it, you can't control it. The only thing you can control is your reaction to it.
- Amy Hatvany
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
- Stephen Hawking
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
- John Hume
No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
- Lauren Hutton
No, give me the past. It doesn't change; it's all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. ... As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
- Aldous Huxley
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
- Jean Paul Sartre
Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.
- Mark Ireland
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
- Janet Jackson
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
- Wyclef Jean
The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore.
--Lucifer from Kevin
- Bruce Jenvey
If a policy isn't working, don't change the policychange its name.
- Jarod Kintz
You don't offend me. At least not until I change my name. Once I change it to Asshole, then I might be offended you keep calling me Jarod.
- Jarod Kintz
Question for your life: If you could change War's name, do you think you'd change its nature?
- Jarod Kintz
There is a hole in my buttocks. I'd like to return it, or at the very least exchange it for a new one.
- Jarod Kintz
If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.
- Moshe Katsav
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
- Kevin Kelly
As soon as... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
- Daniel Keyes
I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" (which used to mean "bright" and "retarded") and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
- Daniel Keyes
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change it's form.
- Amber Kizer
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
- Mark Knopfler
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.
- Lori Lansens
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx
Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it,
- Karl Marx
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
- Karl Marx
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
- Kurt Lewin
The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.
- Malinda Lo
Did you say 'yes' to going out on a date with him?" Sally asked Jacque. "All I got to say is if she said no, she might not want to go to sleep tonight 'cause I'm going to dye her hair blonde to compliment her being a dumb ass," Jen told them. "Uh, Jen, you're a blonde," Jacque pointed out. "No, not really, God just got it wrong and it was too late to change it once He noticed.
- Quinn Loftis
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".
- Kenny Loggins
We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.
- Rob Lowe
Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?
- Michelle Madow
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
- Lao Tzu
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
- Melissa Marr
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
- Neville Marriner
His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom...
- Evelyn Waugh
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
- Chi Mcbride
That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.
- Seanan Mcguire
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air.
- Dinaw Mengestu
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
- Walter M Miller Jr
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
- Madeline Miller
It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do...If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.
- Mark Mills
Shamus shrugged. "It's all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the life out of it."
"Do that often?"
Shamus looked at me over his shoulder. "No."
"Why not? Have something against plants?"
"No, but I haven't met a vegetable good enough to sacrifice a year of my life for.
- Devon Monk
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
- Lorrie Moore
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
- Charles Morgan
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.
- Samantha Morton
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
- Janet Napolitano
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
- Ben Nelson
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
- Patrick Ness
No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.
- Marsha Norman
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.
- Henri Nouwen
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable..
- Edna O Brien
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
- Ambeth R Ocampo
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
- Ben Okri
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
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
- Leonard Orr
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
- Vidal Sassoon
When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.
- Hayden Panettiere
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
- Danica Patrick
We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
- Randy Pausch
That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
- Randy Pausch
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
- Alexander Payne
I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
- Piper Perabo
I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.
- Julie Anne Peters
Staying positive in a negative world will not only better your life but will also change it in more ways than you can ever imagine.
- Timothy Pina
You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
- Louise Rennison
there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along...
- Rainer Maria Rilke
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
- Gregory David Roberts
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
- Bryan Robson
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
- Cesar Romero
Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
- Rainbow Rowell
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
- Paul Ryan
If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
- Sharon Salzberg
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
- Gus Van Sant
I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
- Ben Savage
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
- John Sayles
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
- Robert H Schuller
When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true.
- Charles Sedley
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
- Asne Seierstad
Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.
- Amartya Sen
That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
- Alex Shakar
You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.
- Tupac Shakur
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- Jeanette Winterson
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
- Jules Shear
- Joe Abercrombie
He didn't operate on the same frequency as everyone else. On one hand, he was more dangerous than anyone I'd ever met.
He could slip into a room, kill you with a spatula, and be out of town before anyone knew about it. On the other, he was the most pure, untarnished soul I'd ever come across. It was an odd mix so uniquely Kale, and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.
- Jus Accardo
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
- Diane Ackerman
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
- Sheldon Adelson
And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.
- James Agee
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way.
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.
- Paulo Coelho
The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
- Jodi Picoult
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali
I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.
- Cassandra Clare
I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
- Gillian Anderson
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
- Marc Andreessen
Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst
But you got to change it
On the inside first
To be satisfied
- Van Morrison
There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.
And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.
So you watch yourself about complaining.
What you're supposed to do
when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
- Rudolf Arnheim
All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.
- Diana Athill
It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.
- Melina Marchetta
It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
- Steve Maraboli
Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
You write in order to change the world... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
- James Baldwin
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
- Oscar Wilde
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
- Bernard Baruch
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
- Abu Bakar Bashir
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.
- Alison Bechdel
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.
- John Steinbeck
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
- John Berger
I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.
- Lewis Black
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.
- Isak Dinesen
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
- Marc Bloch
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
- Edward Bond
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
- Bono
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
- Marcus J Borg
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
- Ann Brashares
We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.
- Geraldine Brooks
You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.
- Scott Brooks
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
- Terry Brooks
The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.
- Nicholas Sparks
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
- Nicholas Sparks
Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
- Nicholas Sparks
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion... everything slides off... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
- Bill Bryson
Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke
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
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
- Cab Calloway
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
- Joseph Campbell
It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change itself becomes unchangeable. If the change-worshipper wishes to estimate his own progress, he must be sternly loyal to the ideal of change; he must not begin to flirt gaily with the ideal of monotony. Progress itself cannot progress
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...
As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage
- Orson Scott Card
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
- Helena Bonham Carter
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
- Stephen King
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
- Stephen King
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.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
- Hillary Clinton
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.
- J M Coetzee
The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It's not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today. - Publisher Weekly
- Susane Colasanti
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.
- Chris Colfer
I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.
- Cat Cora
But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
- John Cornyn
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
- Jim Rohn
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
The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It's what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it.
- Kristen Crockett
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
- Anthony J Dangelo
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
- Harrison Ford
Know that change is always challenged! When you decide that you want to make a change, it is the way of the universe to throw obstacles in our way. It is like we are being tested to see how serious we really are about what it is we have said! See it for what it is, don't get discouraged & always keep going!
- Gala Darling
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
- Richard Dawkins
Maybe you like being unhappy so much, you wouldn't do anything to change it.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
- Wade Davis
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
- Joe Eszterhas
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
- Daisy Donovan
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.
- Rick Warren
Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it
- Henry James
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer's voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation.
I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can't remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It's all in puddles and ripples. That's what time is for me.
- Dave Eggers
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
- Ben Elton
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you -finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
- Anne Enright
The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.
- Eve Ensler
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
- Medgar Evers
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
- Frantz Fanon
I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.
- Rio Ferdinand
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
- Jasper Fforde
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Ernst Fischer
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
- Malcolm Fraser
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
- Robert Fulghum
The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absarb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattel and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.
- Alexandra Fuller
Read and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
- Cornelia Funke
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
- Lady Gaga
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
- Barack Obama
all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
- Barack Obama
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
- Barack Obama
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
- George R R Martin
A zebra does not change its spots.
- Al Gore
People tend to focus on the things that they don't like about themselves. While that's important for change, it's equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It's a balancing act.
- Tom Giaquinto
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
- Barry Gibb
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
- Seth Godin
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.
- Mike Gordon
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
- Nicole Green
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
- Stanislav Grof
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
- William Hague
Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.
- Shannon Hale
The constitution of our country says that all men are created equal, but it's a lie. I'll never be able to make a jump shot like Magic Johnson, or drive a car like Mario Andretti, or paint like Picasso. We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it. - A Lick of Frost
- Laurell K Hamilton
We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.
- Laurell K Hamilton
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
- Stephen Harper
What other people think of you is none of your business," she says. "You can't change it, you can't control it. The only thing you can control is your reaction to it.
- Amy Hatvany
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
- Stephen Hawking
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
- John Hume
No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
- Lauren Hutton
No, give me the past. It doesn't change; it's all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. ... As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
- Aldous Huxley
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
- Jean Paul Sartre
Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.
- Mark Ireland
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
- Janet Jackson
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
- Wyclef Jean
The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore.
--Lucifer from Kevin
- Bruce Jenvey
If a policy isn't working, don't change the policychange its name.
- Jarod Kintz
You don't offend me. At least not until I change my name. Once I change it to Asshole, then I might be offended you keep calling me Jarod.
- Jarod Kintz
Question for your life: If you could change War's name, do you think you'd change its nature?
- Jarod Kintz
There is a hole in my buttocks. I'd like to return it, or at the very least exchange it for a new one.
- Jarod Kintz
If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.
- Moshe Katsav
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
- Kevin Kelly
As soon as... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
- Daniel Keyes
I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" (which used to mean "bright" and "retarded") and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
- Daniel Keyes
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change it's form.
- Amber Kizer
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
- Mark Knopfler
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.
- Lori Lansens
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx
Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it,
- Karl Marx
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
- Karl Marx
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
- Kurt Lewin
The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.
- Malinda Lo
Did you say 'yes' to going out on a date with him?" Sally asked Jacque. "All I got to say is if she said no, she might not want to go to sleep tonight 'cause I'm going to dye her hair blonde to compliment her being a dumb ass," Jen told them. "Uh, Jen, you're a blonde," Jacque pointed out. "No, not really, God just got it wrong and it was too late to change it once He noticed.
- Quinn Loftis
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".
- Kenny Loggins
We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.
- Rob Lowe
Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?
- Michelle Madow
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
- Lao Tzu
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
- Melissa Marr
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
- Neville Marriner
His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom...
- Evelyn Waugh
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
- Chi Mcbride
That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.
- Seanan Mcguire
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air.
- Dinaw Mengestu
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
- Walter M Miller Jr
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
- Madeline Miller
It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do...If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.
- Mark Mills
Shamus shrugged. "It's all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the life out of it."
"Do that often?"
Shamus looked at me over his shoulder. "No."
"Why not? Have something against plants?"
"No, but I haven't met a vegetable good enough to sacrifice a year of my life for.
- Devon Monk
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
- Lorrie Moore
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
- Charles Morgan
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.
- Samantha Morton
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
- Janet Napolitano
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
- Ben Nelson
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
- Patrick Ness
No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.
- Marsha Norman
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.
- Henri Nouwen
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable..
- Edna O Brien
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
- Ambeth R Ocampo
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
- Ben Okri
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
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
- Leonard Orr
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
- Vidal Sassoon
When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.
- Hayden Panettiere
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
- Danica Patrick
We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
- Randy Pausch
That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
- Randy Pausch
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
- Alexander Payne
I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
- Piper Perabo
I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.
- Julie Anne Peters
Staying positive in a negative world will not only better your life but will also change it in more ways than you can ever imagine.
- Timothy Pina
You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
- Louise Rennison
there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along...
- Rainer Maria Rilke
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
- Gregory David Roberts
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
- Bryan Robson
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
- Cesar Romero
Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
- Rainbow Rowell
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
- Paul Ryan
If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
- Sharon Salzberg
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
- Gus Van Sant
I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
- Ben Savage
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
- John Sayles
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
- Robert H Schuller
When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true.
- Charles Sedley
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
- Asne Seierstad
Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.
- Amartya Sen
That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
- Alex Shakar
You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.
- Tupac Shakur
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- Jeanette Winterson
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
- Jules Shear
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