925 private quotes tagged change

“Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” — Ralph Abernathy

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“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“You must change in order to survive.” — Pearl Bailey

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“On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I think I can change the game.” — Venus Williams

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“I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.” — Ethel Merman

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“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.” — Rainn Wilson

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“Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.” — George C. Wallace

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“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” — Damien Hirst

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“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.” — Linda Ellerbee

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“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.” — Hamid Karzai

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“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.” — Mario Batali

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“There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.” — Harri Holkeri

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“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.” — Nick Clegg

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“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.” — Charles Sanders Peirce

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“I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.” — Ben Okri

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“I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.” — Andy Murray

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“Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.” — Michael Porter

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“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.” — Paul Wellstone

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“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.” — Peter Steele

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“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.” — Brett Favre

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“I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.” — Al Gore

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