Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gates McFadden

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

Hillary Clinton

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Evelyn Waugh

[Change is] the only evidence of life.

Esther Dyson

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Esther Hicks

Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

Esther Hicks

Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.

Esther Hicks

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

Ernst Fischer

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Flannery O'Connor

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

Federico Fellini

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

Chris Van Allsburg

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

Chris Ware

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

J. B. Priestley

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Maajid Nawaz

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

Neil Gaiman

Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps limits to how much he could let himself change.

Gateway needs to change their message from price and performance to application and lifestyle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Franklin P. Adams

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Franz Grillparzer

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Franz Grillparzer

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Franz Grillparzer

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeb Bush

A lot of things in history change over time.

Jeb Bush

I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.

Jennifer James

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

Jennifer James

Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

Jennifer Hudson

People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

Jennifer Hudson

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Jennifer Granholm

It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

George Will

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

George Will

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.