Change Quotes
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We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.
Billie Letts
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.
George Monbiot
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Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.
Avi Lewis
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Travel lets you pretend that the world didn’t really change, that you just chose your terms.
Ekaterina Sedia
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Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.
William Ruckelshaus
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Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
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Of course the King is mistaken. But is natural that he should be frighten of taking the plunge. We have lost a great opportunity by not intervening at once. But later the King may change his mind, and it may be not too late.
Eleftherios Venizelos
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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
Morgan Freeman
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The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
Paul Krugman
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I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.
Arnold Adoff
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I guess it's not my year right now. The wind changed the game a lot and, you know, there really was a big wind today but, you know, both of us were on the court.
Anastasia Myskina
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Faithfulness to one's calling is ultimately the only true measure of success. By your faithfulness you will change people and creation according to God's plan.
Charlie Peacock
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I think our fans seem to be really loyal they always have been. If we kind of make a change you know, they'll kind of be like oh, cool and just kind of go with the flow which has been really good.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
Nicholas Sparks
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The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
Peter Yarrow
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If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
William Faulkner
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
William Howard Taft
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This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.
Alan AtKisson
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I no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.
Casper Crump