Famous Quotes & Sayings

It?s a tragic, tragic story. One evening has changed so many lives. He has tried to change things around.

It's a very big change for us and requires a lot of new thinking on our part.

Mike Brown

It's a truly scary feeling. You're wondering about your future, your livelihood. Your world changes pretty dramatically.

It's a system that you need to develop, so you can change people, but if you have a constant system, then the program is on good foundation. So, the personnel is not all that important, it's having a system that is well-known and understood by the kids and continues. That's what's important.

It's a symbolic leadership post as much as anything. Things are changing so fast, it is interesting that this old icon of a position is getting so much attention. It will be interesting how it changes with her.

Mark Udall

It's a 100 percent sure bet, drilling would change everything in this area, and it will never be wilderness again.

It was definitely worth it. I wouldn't change what it took to get here for anything. ... To get that first win is special.

It's a change of generation. The older generation here said, 'Over my dead body.' Now it's coming in with the young generation.

Patch Adams

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

Timothy Geithner

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.

Steve Aoki

Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

David Allen

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

Carl Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Alan Moore

Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Al Ries

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

We want to totally change the look from a 50-year-old neighborhood to a neighborhood that is state-of-the-art and fully improved with nice front lawns.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

David Duval

A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Mack Brown

We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It's only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Denis Waitley

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Fred Taylor

The point is, we're moving in that direction and many of the constituents and mechanisms involved are the same. Even a few degrees change in temperature can be a disaster on Earth.

We are a fully professional orchestra with fully paid musicians, but we are still perceived as a small community orchestra. We need to change that.

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

We strive for 100 percent. Our goal is to be perfect. When you set that as your goal, you know you will change those numbers for the better.

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Charles de Gaulle

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?