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 ~
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Habits change into character.
~By Ovid ~
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
~By Stone Gossard ~
And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
~By John Motson ~
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
~By Denis Waitley ~
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
~By Gary Becker ~
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 ~
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
~By Charles Sturt ~
But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
~By Earl Browder ~
Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
~By May Sarton ~
Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
~By Arthur Capper ~
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.
~By Star Jones ~
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
~By Don Ellis ~
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
~By Tony Campolo ~
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
~By John Howard ~
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.
~By Mike Gordon ~
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
~By John Mortimer ~
Everything changes but change.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
~By Augustus Y. Napier ~
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~By Emma Goldman ~
We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
~By John Oates ~
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
~By James Hillman ~
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
~By Lucretius ~
I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
~By Josh McDowell ~
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
~By Octavio Paz ~
This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!
~By Terry Kath ~
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
~By Thom Gunn ~
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 ~
You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.
~By Dennis Muren ~
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
~By John H. Reagan ~
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 ~
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
~By Ray Davies ~
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
~By Herman Hesse ~
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
~By David Sedaris ~
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 ~
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.
~By James T. Walsh ~
Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
~By George Stephen ~
There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'
~By David Schwimmer ~
I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.
~By Della Reese ~
It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
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 ~
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
~By J. F. Powers ~
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
~By Eva Braun ~
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
~By Dick Wolf ~
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
~By Frank Herbert ~
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 ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
~By Shirley Williams ~
Success, for me, is being able to provide information that will help to change someone's life positively.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
~By William Petty ~
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
~By Ken Livingstone ~
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
~By Andrea Martin ~
My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.
~By Trey Parker ~
This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
~By Marlin Fitzwater ~
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
~By Roger Mudd ~
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.
~By Laurent Jalabert ~
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.
~By Jared Diamond ~
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
~By James Levine ~
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
~By Siegfried Sassoon ~
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
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