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 conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
~By Ariel Durant ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
~By Richard Bach ~
Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
~By John Hume ~
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
~By Curt Schilling ~
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
~By Martin Bashir ~
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
~By William C. Bryant ~
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
~By Wellington Mara ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
~By George Harrison ~
We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.
~By Jon Crosby ~
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.
~By Meg Ryan ~
If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
~By Max Burns ~
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
~By Corey Feldman ~
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
~By Meryl Streep ~
A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.
~By Emma Brindal ~
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.
~By Charlie Daniels ~
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.
~By Stone Gossard ~
You gotta be able to change worlds.
~By Courtney Love ~
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
~By Shana Alexander ~
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
~By Josiah Strong ~
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
~By Cynthia Payne ~
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
~By David Brin ~
You never know what show is going to change your life.
~By Brion James ~
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
~By Bettina Arndt ~
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
~By Zola Budd ~
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
~By Veronica Lake ~
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
~By Marsha Norman ~
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.
~By Tom Felton ~
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.
~By Brad Paisley ~
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
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 ~
You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
~By Mike Epps ~
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
~By Nina Hagen ~
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
~By Billie Jean King ~
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
~By Gabrielle Union ~
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 ~
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
~By Rosie O'Donnell ~
People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
~By William Hague ~
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
~By Bill Gates ~
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
~By Gerry Adams ~
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.
~By Meir Kahane ~
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
~By Robert Bork ~
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
~By James Lovelock ~
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
~By Steve Forbes ~
It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al Gore Kool-Aid' concerning global climate change.
~By Earl F. Titcomb, Jr. ~
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.
~By Greg Maddux ~
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
~By Edward Zwick ~
You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
~By Tom Atkins ~
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
~By Cotton Fitzsimmons ~
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
~By Little Richard ~
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