Quotes on change

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Author: Ralph Abernathy

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Author: John Abizaid

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Author: Lord Acton

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

Author: Gerry Adams

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Author: Gerry Adams

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Author: Joseph Addison

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

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.

Author: Freda Adler

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Author: Casey Affleck

Even God cannot change the past.

Author: Agathon

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Author: Akhenaton

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Author: Jessica Alba

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

Author: Damon Albarn

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Author: Leon Alberti

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Author: Alan Alda

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Author: Muhammad Ali

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Author: Saul Alinsky

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Author: Woody Allen

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Author: Dorothy Allison

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

Author: Chris Allsburg

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Author: Alejandro Amenabar

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

Author: Aldrich Ames

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

Author: William Ames

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Author: A. Ammons

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Author: David Amram

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

Author: Namie Amuro

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

Author: Chris Anderson

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.

Author: Gillian Anderson

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Author: Gillian Anderson

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Author: Greg Anderson

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Author: Greg Anderson

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Author: Philip Anderson

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Author: Barbara Angelis

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Author: Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Author: Maya Angelou

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Author: Sharron Angle

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Author: Francesca Annis

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

Author: Katharine Anthony

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

Author: Robert Anthony

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Author: Robert Anthony

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Author: Michael Apted

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Author: Diane Arbus

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Author: Francis Arinze

Change in all things is sweet.

Author: Aristotle

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

Author: Joan Armatrading

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Author: Bettina Arndt

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.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.

Author: Gerard Arpey

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Author: Gloria Arroyo

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Author: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Author: John Ashcroft

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Author: Leon Askin

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Author: John Astin

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Author: Nancy Astor

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Author: Christopher Atkins

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Author: David Attenborough

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Author: Paul Auster

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Author: Tracy Austin

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

Author: David Axelrod

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Author: Sai Baba

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Author: Carl Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Author: Richard Bach

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Author: Richard Bach

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

Author: Randy Bachman

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

You must change in order to survive.

Author: Pearl Bailey

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Author: Ella Baker

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

Author: Bob Balaban

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

Author: Emily Balch

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Author: James Baldwin

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

Author: Steve Ballmer

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Author: Anne Bancroft

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Author: Henry Bannerman

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Author: William Banting

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Author: Julian Barbour

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Author: Joel Barker

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

Author: Neal Barnard

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Author: James Barrie

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Author: Bruce Barton

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Author: John Barton

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Author: Abu Bashir

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.

Author: Abu Bashir

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Author: Leonard Baskin

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Author: Augusto Bastos

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Author: Miriam Beard

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

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.

Author: Alison Bechdel

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

Author: Beck

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Author: Beck

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

Author: Glenn Beck

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Author: Martha Beck

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Author: Boris Becker

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.

Author: Marek Belka

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

Author: Carol Bellamy

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Author: Saul Bellow

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Author: Dirk Benedict

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Author: Tony Benn

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Author: Arnold Bennett

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

Author: Jill Bennett

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Author: A. Benson

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Author: George Benson

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Author: Peter Berger

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Author: Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Author: Henri Bergson

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Author: Gael Bernal

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Author: Yogi Berra

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot.

Author: Michael Berryman

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Author: Bernardo Bertolucci

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

Author: Luc Besson

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Author: Mary Bethune

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Author: Ernest Bevin

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Author: Judy Biggert

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Author: Steven Biko

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Author: Josh Billings

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Author: Juliette Binoche

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Author: Juliette Binoche

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Author: Hugo Black

I think that, on the reconciliation issue, if they had the votes, we wouldn't have had the summit. And if they try to go through reconciliation, it will be a change in semantics. Instead of the American people saying 'stop the bill' or 'kill the bill,' it's all going to be about repealing the bill. That's not the kind of discussion that they want.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

You put high heels on and you change.

Author: Manolo Blahnik

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Author: Tony Blair

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Author: Bill Blass

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

Author: H. Blavatsky

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Author: Harold Bloom

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Author: Lionel Blue

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

Author: John Boehner

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

Author: David Bohm