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“These days a very melancholic mood has taken hold of me. There is nothing else but my work. My dear ones, I have been well and I have been working and my way of working is changing. For this reason I always feel extremely anxious. I am not content and perhaps I will not (ever) be satisfied with my work, not even for one day. I want to attain works which are more personal and clean.”
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 125: Gorky's quote, in a letter to his sister Vartush Mooradian, 28 February 1938
“I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.”
Queen Rania of Jordan (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giraldus mingles in the crowd, catches its accents, is borne along by its changing passions, and thus becomes a very mirror of that fighting, chaffering, praying age.”
Gerald of Wales (1146–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir John E Lloyd A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1912) Vol. 1, p. 564.
“Art is an ever-changing universe and we as artists need to continue to evolve. The concept of short term display spaces is echoed in the digital world, as well as, in this dimension.”
Carson Grant (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lesemann, Mara, "NYC Artist Carson Ferri-Grant Rejoins Pop-Up Gallery Movement in 2016", NewsBlaze, August 29, 2016, p.1
“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.”
Fisher Ames (1758–1808) first seen 1789 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to George Richards Minot (June 12, 1789), reported in Fisher Ames, Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence (1854), p. 54.
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind’s treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart’s need.”
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taliesin 1952
“Rejecting Chomsky is almost a full time job. He keeps changing his mind, so you have to study quite a lot of Chomsky before you know all the stuff you can reject.”
Mark Rosenfelder wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too, and in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally. … This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science — and the realities of the times.”
Yousef Saanei (1937–2020) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted from interviews in Tehran (June 2000), published in Sacred Rage (2001) by Robin Wright, p. 280.
“So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief.”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine... some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished...I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.”
Steven M. Greer (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And so with us, she thought. We come, we go, and, as individuals, we are forgotten. But the stream of human life goes on, ever changing, but ever the same, and as the stream is fed by well-springs hoarded by Nature so the stream of humanity is fed by the store of accumulated wisdom and effort and hard-won experience of past generations.”
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
“The view from space is described as life-changing...seeing Earth, our home planet, the jewel it is, a mass, a rock suspended in its neighborhood, our neighborhood, the universe.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d sign him right here and now, and I’d go wherever it takes to land a player like that, he’s a "Crack" (a "match changing" player) player and I’m a fan of everything that he does, and what’s more now is the prefect time to sign him as he’s got a wealth of experience and has reached full maturity.”
Raúl González (born 1977) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ottmar Hitzfeld 2007
“I stay focused on details It keeps me from feeling the big things But watch the microscope long enough Things that seem still are still changing”
Ben Folds (born 1966) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Still", Supersunnyspeedgraphic (2006).
“(Sylvia) A really good haircut is as effective in changing one’s life as A) 3 months of psychotherapy. B) 6 months of psychotherapy.”
Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being someone who has been the frontman and the songwriter for a band that has been together since I was 12 years old, you do get to that point where you think: 'If I keep doing this for too long it's going to be all I can do' … which is why in Silverchair I kept changing.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Australian, "Pop goes sad boy of rock" June 2004
“Oh, oh, oh You're changing your heart Oh, oh, oh You know who you are.”
Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way...you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.”
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)”
Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The relative stability of the system is... largely determined by its capacity to adjust to the demands of the actors affected by changing political and environmental conditions.”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The importance of international trade for cannot be overemphasized. But free trade is not the best path to economic development. Trade helps economic development only when the country employs a mixture of protection and open trade, constantly adjusting it according to its changing needs and capabilities. Trade is simply too important for economic development to be left to free trade economists.”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.”
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I'll just keep changing These colors, colors, colors, colors I'm not in the same place That I was, I was, I was, I was But if somebody tells me I'll go back to my old ways I'm gonna say, no way I'm out of the doorway I'm hearing them all say I'll go back to my old ways Not going back to my old ways (ways...)”
Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What good does it do to pray about anything if the outcome is not affected? I would say when God chooses which world to actualize, he takes into account the prayers that would be offered in that world. We shouldn't think prayer is about changing the mind of God. He's omniscient; he already knows the future, but prayer makes a difference in that it can affect what world God has chosen to create.”
William Lane Craig (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Union of civilizations, joining of cultures, and conjugation of religions are the universal concerns of the cosmic man. Eight existing civilizations of the world are not enough for the ever-changing taste of man who is in favor of varieties. Therefore, new human civilizations need to be born and developed and they surely will.”
Elia M. Ramollah (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.”
Alberto Manguel (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”
Alberto Manguel (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.”
Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. Respect it.”
Lana Del Rey (born 1985) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (10 January 2021)
“Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At least within our own consciousness, the past is malleable and flexible, constantly changing as our recollection reinterprets and re-explains what has happened.”
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 57 ; Cited in: Robert Benjamin Smith, (1982), Qualitative methods. p. 64
“If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.”
Angus King (born 1944) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Why Angus King is the most important Senate candidate in the country" by Aaron Blake in The Washington Post (6 March 2012)
“Why do economists persist in modelling the economy with static tools when dynamic ones exist; why do they treat as stationery an entity which is forever changing?”
Steve Keen (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The measurement of time was the first example of a scientific discovery changing the technology.”
Ivar Ekeland (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The manner in which mathematical theories are applied does not depend on preconceived ideas; it is a purposeful technique depending on, and changing with, experience.”
William Feller (1906–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Technology's rapid development and our ever-changing lifestyles created a fundamentally new and exhilarating backdrop for building, and in this new world context I felt we must reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism – not to resurrect them, but to unveil new fields of building.”
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her use of painting as investigative technique and her 1983 work The World (89 Degrees) in Zaha Hadid: Inspiration and Process in Architecture, 2011.
“We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.”
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A malfunction of this type can be cured only by changing the nature of the universe, which is, of course, impractical.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indeed, in 1999, over half the people on the planet had never made or received a telephone call, although this is changing fast.”
Manuel Castells (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ongoing transformation of communication technology in the digital age extends the reach of communication media to all domains of social life in a network that is at the same time global and local, generic and customised in an ever-changing pattern.”
Manuel Castells (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo—even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”
Richard Rohr (born 1943) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (2011)
“Even the slave owner is restricted in his ability to manipulate his labor supply, for he must protect his investment in slaves by feeding them during times when they do not labor. In contrast, capitalist entrepreneurs can hire and fire laborers or very their wages in response to changing circumstances.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus wanted to liberate everyone from the law — from all laws. But this could not be achieved by abolishing or changing the law. He had to dethrone the law. He had to ensure that the law be man’s servant and not his master (Mark 2:27-28). Man must therefore take responsibility for his servant, the law, and use it to serve the needs of mankind.”
Albert Nolan (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a matter of transitions, you see; the changing, the becoming must be cared for closely. You would do as much for the seedlings as they become plants in the field. (p120)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source