925 private quotes tagged change

“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”— Jeff Cooper

“I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.”— Rick Springfield

“It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.”— John H. Johnson

“I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.”— Debra Winger

“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”— Jeanette Winterson

“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”— Muqtada al Sadr

“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”— Gael Garcia Bernal

“The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.”— Al Gore

“There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.”— Brett Favre

“I don't change. The things around me change.”— Jeremy Renner

“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.”— Joan D. Vinge

“I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.”— Eddie Izzard

“The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.”— Gene Tierney

“I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.”— Harlan Coben

“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”— Marian Wright Edelman

“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”— Rudy Giuliani

“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.”— Jonathan Sacks

“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”— Jonathan Sacks

“Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.”— Jonathan Sacks

“My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.”— Tom Hanks

“I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.”— Nick Clegg

“Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.”— Jonathan Sacks

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.”— Robert Anthony