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Change Quotes


"You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself."


"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."


"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."


"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."


"A change of feeling is a change of destiny."


"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue."


"Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change."


"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."


"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."


"I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me."


"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution."


"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world."


"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."


"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."


"I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."


"You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world."


"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons."


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


"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."


"If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for."


"And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh."


"A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy."


"One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself."


"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace."


"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."


"Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change."


"I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly."It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town."
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