Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.

Samuel Johnson

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Samuel Johnson

Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

Wallace Stevens

We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.

Vittorio Alfieri

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

William Henry Harrison

Times change, and we change with them.

William Howard Taft

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Will Wright

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Wayne Dyer

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Wayne Dyer

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Cunningham

I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Arthur Ward

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Warren Zevon

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

Washington Irving

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

Washington Irving

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Walter Lippmann

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

William Feather

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

William Irwin Thompson

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

William Least Heat-Moon

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

Walter Scott

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Walter Isaacson

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

Winona LaDuke

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

Winifred Holtby

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

Winston Churchill

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

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.

William S. Burroughs

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.