925 private quotes tagged change

“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.”— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.”— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.”— LL Cool J

“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.”— Tom Stoppard

“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.”— Woody Guthrie

“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.”— Madeleine Albright

“Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.”— Simon Mainwaring

“Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.”— Esther Dyson

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”— Arnold Bennett

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”— A. C. Benson

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”— Wayne Dyer

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”— Frederick Douglass

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”— Bertolt Brecht

“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.”— Sienna Miller

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”— Ellen Glasgow

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”— Doris Lessing

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”— Harrison Ford

“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”— George W. Bush

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”— Gail Sheehy

“If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?”— Ian Botham

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”— Mignon McLaughlin

“Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.”— Barbara Sher

“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.”— Katherine Mansfield

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.”— Nancy Astor