Changing Quotes

• I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Place

• Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Pleasure
  • Changing
  • Stretching

• Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Moment
  • Place

• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  

  Michael Pollan
  • Forget
  • Natural
  • Profound

• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  

  Warren W. Wiersbe
  • Mistake
  • Storm
  • Prepared

• What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

  

  George Eliot
  • Result
  • Changing
  • Metaphor

• If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

  

  Ray Lewis
  • Because
  • Make
  • Before

• The game of football is always changing.

  

  Archie Manning
  • Football
  • Changing

• Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Result
  • Changing
  • Satisfied

• It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Work
  • Statement
  • African Americans

• I will still carry on changing all the time.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Time
  • Changing

• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Attitude
  • Should
  • Breathe

• “More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do.”

  

  Nadine Strossen
  • Think
  • Speech
  • Changing

• One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Together
  • Balance
  • Friendship

• If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Secrets

• No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Planet
  • Conditions
  • Donald Trump

• That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?

  

  Bill Taylor
  • Game
  • Hollywood
  • Industry

• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Difficult
  • Gratitude
  • Becoming

• Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Life
  • Leaving
  • Legacy

• Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Character
  • Humor
  • Manner

• I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Sometimes
  • Months
  • Constantly

• I think it's a really excellent time to be a woman in music. A lot of the past was women fighting to be where women are now. Every once in a while I'll get the, "Oh, you're a pretty good guitar player for a girl," bullshit like that. But that's all changing.

  

  Emily Kokal
  • Music
  • Fighting
  • Player

• My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

  

  Nikki S. Lee
  • Work
  • Changing
  • Forms

• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Artists
  • Direction
  • Hip Hop

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