Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Clint Eastwood

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Daniel De Leon

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

David Coverdale

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

David Bach

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

Davy Crockett

Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

David Spade

I changed my act because I wasn't getting booked.

David Livingstone

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

David Lloyd George

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

David Harewood

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

David Hare

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Confucius

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

Andrew Flintoff

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

Ambrose Bierce

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Ambrose Bierce

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

Alicia Keys

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Alice Walker

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Alice Meynell

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Alice Hoffman

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Anne Lamott

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Anna Chlumsky

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Albert Brooks

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Amanda Palmer

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Anna Quindlen

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.