When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered. ~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ~By Richard Russo ~
The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level. ~By Andrew Shue ~
Habits change into character. ~By Ovid ~
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. ~By Tim Berners Lee ~
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. ~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~By Flannery O'Connor ~
I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living. ~By Jim Cramer ~
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. ~By Twyla Tharp ~
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. ~By Michael Phelps ~
I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow. ~By Charlie Watts ~
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 ~
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. ~By Pete Waterman ~
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. ~By Edward Witten ~
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ~By Franz Liszt ~
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ~By Jerry Pournelle ~
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else. ~By Solomon Burke ~
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ~By Fred Allen ~
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations. ~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed. ~By Angie Stone ~
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions. ~By Kinky Friedman ~
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change. ~By John Naisbitt ~
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ~By Albert Einstein ~
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased. ~By Wayne Coyne ~
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ~By Robert Conklin ~
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. ~By David Ricardo ~
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. ~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ~By Robert Bridges ~
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~By Harriet Tubman ~
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. ~By Thomas Jane ~
This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power. ~By Mark Lloyd ~
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ~By John Major ~
We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music. ~By Neil Tennant ~
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ~By Pete du Pont ~
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. ~By Elvis Presley ~
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ~By Isaac Asimov ~
So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made. ~By Geena Davis ~
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ~By William James ~
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ~By Ernst Mayr ~
Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change. ~By Enrique Iglesias ~
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ~By Robert Kennedy ~
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. ~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation. ~By Paul Nurse ~
The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid. ~By David Wells ~
Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time. ~By Alex Campbell ~
All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen. ~By John Murray ~
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do. ~By Nicholas Lea ~
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ~By Jose Saramago ~
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~By Nelson Mandela ~
There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later. ~By Aaron Spelling ~
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. ~By Sting ~
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. ~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ~By Tony Robbins ~
Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. ~By Glenn Beck ~
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. ~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. ~By Oliver North ~
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. ~By Hu Shih ~
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. ~By Eric Butterworth ~
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. ~By William Christopher Handy ~
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. ~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
All things must change to something new, to something strange. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. ~By Tupac Shakur ~
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever. ~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. ~By John Walters ~
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ~By Anthony Holden ~
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~By George Arliss ~
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to. ~By Chuck Klosterman ~
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~By Stephen Covey ~
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows. ~By Pat Oliphant ~
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West. ~By Gary Wright ~
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. ~By Karl Barth ~
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. ~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. ~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. ~By Linda M. Godwin ~
God, life changes faster than you think. ~By Amy Tan ~
The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. ~By David Letterman ~
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. ~By Will Smith ~
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ~By Robert Morgan ~
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. ~By Ernest Bevin ~
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. ~By Mathew Brady ~
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. ~By Andrew Cohen ~
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
The key to change... is to let go of fear. ~By Rosanne Cash ~
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. ~By Adrienne Rich ~
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here. ~By Suzy Bogguss ~
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. ~By Annie Lennox ~
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. ~By Tom Peters ~
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ~By Julian Barbour ~
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001. ~By John Howard ~
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ~By Nassau William Senior ~
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change. ~By Johnnie Cochran ~
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago. ~By Meir Kahane ~
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 ~
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ~By Tony Robbins ~
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ~By Helen Thomas ~
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ~By Quentin Crisp ~
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ~By Amelia Earhart ~
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