Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

Stephen Colbert

When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday.. no matter what happened Tuesday.

Stephen Colbert

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

Stella Benson

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Stefan Zweig

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

Thomas Hardy

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Friedman

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook , Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

Thomas Friedman

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Thomas Adams

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Roy Wood

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Richard Davidson

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

Nothing had changed. Nothing.

Haruki Murakami

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Ossie Davis

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Oswald Mosley

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Willard Scott

Having a phobia has changed me.

Warren Gatland

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve

Warren G. Bennis

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

Ronald Reagan

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Saint Augustine

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Wilma Rudolph

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

Wim Wenders

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

William Throsby Bridges

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

W. Clement Stone

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Zora Neale Hurston

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

Zach Wamp

With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.