Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Handy

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.

Bob Riley

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

Bob Riley

I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

Bob Saget

If you don't wake up every day happy, change something.

Bikram Choudhury

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Paul Lambert

There is no point coming here next week with a long face because you can't change the result,

Oprah Winfrey

Until we rise up in the streets and change the laws in this country, this will continue to happen and every time it will be more heinous than the next.

Nick Harkaway

Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.

Yeah, it changes the dynamics of the race because he is such a big-time marathoner. And I definitely think it opens up a spot because someone of his caliber, even if he were coming in at 75 percent, would be a 2:10-type runner.

What they're telling you is, they want change on every front.

What has changed is the pace of evolution.

Willie Nelson

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

What has changed is our state of mind. We had not seen this for a long time.

What has changed in the 1990s is a changed perception of the world,

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Carter G. Woodson

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Camille Paglia

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Catherine the Great

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

We're seeing some investors testing the tech waters, but the urge to sell after slight rises is extremely strong. This trend is unlikely to change soon given uncertainty over the high-tech profit outlook.

We're looking closely at the recommendations. We have a huge database. Any change won't be easy, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Benjamin Franklin

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Bob Geldof

Music can't change the world.

We are already planning for next year, and we recognize that we need to make several changes to regain the momentum this team had earlier in the year and to ensure we have the right people in the right places to win races and a championship.

Jeremy Corbyn

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

Charles Koch

We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.

Bill Rodgers

A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.

Unless something is changed in the current regulations, the cruise line industry will be able to treat the next family as we were treated. God save the next family.

With the Lucio Tan group gaining sole control of PNB, it is unlikely that there will be any change in the composition of the bank's highly professional and competent management team,

Margaret Beckett

We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.

Jasper Johns

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

With what we have here right now, ... you'll see the landscape change and be better than what the perception is.

Chang-Rae Lee

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it.