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Change Quotes


"They said just keep doing my thing, don't try to change anything, which I won't."


"We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it."


"This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down."


"When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career."


"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."


"Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart"


"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts."



"You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core."


"Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that."


"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."


"I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say."


"Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change."


"The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity."


"In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be."


"Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted."


"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."


"It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir." "Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast."


"You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things."


"Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state."


"As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement."


"President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate."


"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny."


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


"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."


"The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore."


"I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change."


"But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."


"It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds."


"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."
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