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Change Quotes


"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."


"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."


"But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation."


"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."


"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."


"Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?"


"Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go."


"Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified."


"I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change."


"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."


"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."


"Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change."


"I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me."


"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights."


"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."


"We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there."


"Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name."


"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."


"We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change."


"I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal."


"The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing."


"The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution."


"Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go."


"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
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