925 private quotes tagged change

“Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.” — Malcolm Fraser

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“I like progress but I hate change.” — Jon Bon Jovi

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“We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.” — Abu Bakar Bashir

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“The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.” — Drew Barrymore

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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Don't fear change - embrace it.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” — Pope Paul VI

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“I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.” — Michael Phelps

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“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” — Al Gore

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“I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.” — John Grisham

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“I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.” — Michelle Obama

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“While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.” — Max Muller

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“There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.” — Tiger Woods

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“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.” — John Motson

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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” — Mike Murdock

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“I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.” — John Cleese

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“Logic will never change emotion or perception.” — Edward de Bono

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“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.” — John Henry Newman

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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.” — Abel Ferrara

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“Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.” — Miriam Makeba

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“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.” — Stephen Covey

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“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.” — Dan Quayle

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“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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