I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.
~By Burl Ives ~
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
~By Lewis Grizzard ~
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
~By Richard Burr ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
~By Cal Thomas ~
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
~By Thom Mayne ~
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
~By Millard Fillmore ~
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.
~By Ann Oakley ~
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
~By Gianni Versace ~
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
~By Richard Kiel ~
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.
~By Bill Janklow ~
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
~By Carl Jung ~
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
~By Andrew Niccol ~
Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
~By Jon Voight ~
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
~By Carl Andre ~
There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.
~By Juan Cole ~
In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Evil changes everybody!
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
~By Nikki Sixx ~
If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
~By Paula Danziger ~
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
~By Casey Kasum ~
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
~By Arthur Rubinstein ~
What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
~By Walter Washington ~
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Cats don't like change without their consent.
~By Roger Caras ~
I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
~By Herbert Simon ~
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
~By Luis Figo ~
You must change in order to survive.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
~By John Peers ~
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
~By Peter Drucker ~
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.
~By Jock Sturges ~
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
~By Keith Urban ~
I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.
~By John Anderson ~
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
~By Jean Piaget ~
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
~By Donal Logue ~
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~By Lord Acton ~
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
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!
~By Greg Anderson ~
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
~By Hu Shih ~
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
~By Frederik Pohl ~
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.
~By Pete du Pont ~
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
~By Frances Farmer ~
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
~By Xun Zi ~
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
~By Thomas Gray ~
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
~By Francis Crick ~
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
~By Tiberius ~
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
~By Steven Hill ~
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
~By Plato ~
Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
~By Pete du Pont ~
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.
~By Trish Stratus ~
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
~By John Keegan ~
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~By Doug Larson ~
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
~By George Gilder ~
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
To remain young one must change.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
~By John Pearson ~
It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.
~By Alvin Lee ~
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
~By Jules Shear ~
I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.
~By John Harrison ~
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
~By Steve Forbes ~
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.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.
~By Guy Hamilton ~
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
~By Thurston Moore ~
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
~By Andy Warhol ~
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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