925 private quotes tagged change

“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”— Kate Millett

“I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!”— Michael Bloomberg

“Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.”— Billie Joe Armstrong

“I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.”— Peter Camejo

“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.”— Henry W. Kendall

“Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.”— Steve Harvey

“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”— Ernie Pyle

“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”— Charles Eames

“I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.”— Isaac Watts

“You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.”— Chris Cooper

“If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.”— Medgar Evers

“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”— Beth Ditto

“It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.”— Amber Valletta

“Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.”— Cotton Fitzsimmons

“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?”— Max de Pree

“Cats don't like change without their consent.”— Roger Caras

“I love change, I need it.”— Rod Stewart

“Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.”— Joy Page

“There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.”— David Attenborough

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”— Gloria Steinem

“It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.”— Marc Jacobs

“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.”— Russell Baker

“The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”— Herbert Spencer

“All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.”— Cate Blanchett

“I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.”— Alan Alda