Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Andrew Greeley

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

Amy Tan

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Andy Warhol

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Alvin Toffler

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

Alvin Toffler

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

Alvin Toffler

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Alvin Toffler

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Alvin Toffler

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Alvin Toffler

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

Anne Graham Lotz

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

Anne Enright

Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

The problem is not that the security forces are out of control; they only follow orders from the state. It's the state that wants to show it's still strong and intimidating and holding the reins. Any political movement that gains momentum, that thinks it can change anything, is crushed.

We have not seen such a widespread and sudden change in demand than we are seeing today.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

We have not changed our stand. We are still requesting the American experts to depart the country before the deadline.

We haven't really experienced the changes in all their glory yet.

We haven't gotten any bounces yet. I imagine sooner or later our fortunes are going to change and we're going to get some luck our way but there are only three games left.

J. C. Watts

We haven't changed our style. Everything we're doing today is the same stuff we were doing yesterday. Same southern style and Texas heart, same producers we just took stuff up on a higher level.

We haven't changed our minds about anything. The rules of the park are the rules.

Paul Hewitt

We haven't changed anything. What I plan to do, probably around Oct. 1, is cut back on individual instruction and do more team stuff.

Paul Hewitt

We haven't changed anything, ... What I plan to do, probably around Oct. 1, is cut back on individual instruction and do more team stuff.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

Noam Chomsky

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Maya Angelou

I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.