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Change Quotes


"Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books."


"Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies."


"The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers."


"In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America."


"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."


"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."


"Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later."


"The key to why things change is the key to everything."


"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."


"The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it."


"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."


"There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change."



"I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change."


"The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like."


"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."


"To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport."


"Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge."


"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."


"The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it."


"The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about."


"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."


"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."


"Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change."


"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."


"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."


"I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life."


"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."


"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change."


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