Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Alejandro Amenabar

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Alfred North Whitehead

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All things human change.

Alec Baldwin

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Ronda Rousey

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

The fact that the governor vetoed it didn't change the fact that the legislature expressed an interest in it.

The fact that someone commissioned a poll doesn't mean anything. A poll is a snapshot of time that may or may not change as a result of the commissioner's testimony.

The existing council and mayor has served the town well. We're not recommending change to the form of government at this time.

We'll start with those of you that are interested. We can start talking about what we can do, things that we can do to change the environment, change the culture and do what we can to educate all of us together about each other and how we can get along. I'll commit to that from my office.

What it says is that they are making efforts to change and diversify.

What we see right now is a snapshot of a long time process between the magnetic field and the inner core. I do expect to see this rate change with time.

Alexander Pope

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Alexander Pope

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Debbie Ford

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

Drew Carey

What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!

Douglas MacArthur

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

Douglas MacArthur

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Doug Davidson

I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.

Dweezil Zappa

I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dalai Lama

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

Dalai Lama

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dalai Lama

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Dolly Parton

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.