Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Rick Wright

In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

Rick Warren

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Rick Warren

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Veronica Roth

Change, like healing, takes time.

Rebecca Solnit

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

Samuel Johnson

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Robert Jordan

What can't be changed must be endured.

William H. Seward

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

William Dean Howells

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Walter Pater

Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Raleigh

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

W. Somerset Maugham

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

William Petty

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

William O. Douglas

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Yehuda Berg

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Yehuda Berg

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Zig Ziglar

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Right now plans are to continue to operate out of West Side Jacksonville operations center, unless there should be change in the storm's course.

Cristobal Huet

Roberto played great and kept them in the game during the first and second periods. The difference was Kovalev. He can change a game like that with his skill.

Jim Courier

Roger (Federer) has said unequivocally that he doesn't want Hawk-Eye, he doesn't want to change anything, but if you're playing as well as he is, you don't want to change your socks, your underwear, your girlfriend, your agent, anything.

Eugene Wilson

Rodney's always been a big defender for us, helping us out there but we don't have Rodney now. I don't know what Rodney could have done out there today to change it.

Research about possible future climate change is useless unless institutions actually use the results to guide long-range planning.

Tim Foley

Resistance to SCN races 1, 2, 3, 5 and 14 has been confirmed with 95M60. A change in the nematode spectrum in Southern fields created a need for this type of multi-race resistance.

Remember this is only a concept. In my experience many things can change from concept to final plans. A concept is just a concept.

Katsuya Okada

Please change the government and give us a chance.

Natalie Cole

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

Playing on the road, we have to change up our mind-set. We have to think defense first.