“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.”
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“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”
“It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.”
“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.”
“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.”
“I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.”
“The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'”
“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.”
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
“The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.”
“The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.”
“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.”
“I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.”
“I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.”
“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.”
“People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.”
“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.”
“Logic will never change emotion or perception.”
“And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.”
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”
“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.”
“Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.”