change quotes

“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”

— Franz Kafka

“What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.”

— Willie Nelson

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Habits change into character.”

— Ovid

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ”

— William Shakespeare

“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. ”

— Daisaku Ikeda

“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.”

— Dennis Quaid

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. ”

— Serj Tankian

“We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”

— Serj Tankian

“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”

— Eminem

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

— Sai Baba

“In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.”

— Christina Aguilera

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ”

— Niels Bohr

“When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.”

— George Washington Bush

“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 Washington Bush

“People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. ”

— George Washington Bush

“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ”

— Julius Caesar

“It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Dynamism is a function of change. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. ”

— Bob Dylan

“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. ”

— Bob Dylan

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. ”

— Clint Eastwood