Change Quotes - Page 117

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

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.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

We need to push the reset button on climate change.

Climate change is a reality.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.