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“If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While modern changes were intrinsic to Western historical development, they were largely seen by Muslims as alien and enforced.”
Suha Taji-Farouki (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century, I.B.Tauris, London 2004
“The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
“The problem of the re-organization of science will not be solved by administrative or financial changes. It will also be necessary to reorganise in a most comprehensive way the whole apparatus of scientific communication.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was my purpose to emphasize... to what extent the advance of natural science has helped to determine that of society... not only in economic changes... by the application of scientific discoveries, but... by the effect of the general frame of thought... [N]othing less would be adequate than a complete reevaluation of the reciprocal relations of science and society.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“• Special Provision on the Provision and Maintenance of Basic Educational Facilities was amended to reflect changes in the distribution of the appropriations and the inclusion of an amount for the annual payment of school buildings constructed by the NHA. Likewise, the said provision also allows the DepEd to deduct a 0.5% engineering and administrative overhead (EAO) on the project cost.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The major budgetary increases and changes consist of the following:”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kandinsky was connected with Die Brücke and the Blue Rider: they had a concept and created a reality. But I prefer Jean Fautrier [French painter-artist; 1898 - 1965] with his suffering and self-absorption. And his purpose on bringing about changes was just as strong. As a result I see in Fautrier a stronger paradigm than in Kandinsky..”
Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1986) n.p.
“The central assertion of this view, I repeat, is that each new stage of words literally created new perceptions and attentions, and such new perceptions and attentions resulted in important cultural changes which are reflected in the archaeological record.”
Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.”
Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.”
Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes -- and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.”
“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When all within the four seas have been put in their proper places, [the sage] sits in darkness to observe the light. When those to his left and right have taken their places, he opens the gate to face the world. He changes nothing, alters nothing, but acts with the two handles of reward and punishment, acts and never ceases: this is what is called walking the path of principle.”
Han Fei (280–233 BC) said by 233 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wielding Power", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
“Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.”
Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not extreme revolutionaries, although we do not shrink from formidable changes... We are not foes of property, but we are anxious to see property more righteously apportioned. If that is effected, property will be safer than it is.”
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on land reform to a national land and housing demonstration in London (20 April 1907), quoted in The Times (22 April 1907), p. 18
“It changes colour every time I do a film but I have this great guy called Rosario who works at a London salon called Hair Expressions who really knows what he’s doing. I’ve been told 80 times that I’ll have to have it all cut off because it’s ruined and then he fixes it. He’s the best hair man in the world.”
Sienna Guillory (born 1975) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sienna Guillory Interview by Jenni Baden Howard. The Sunday Times. 2001.
“Conditions will be basically altered; along certain lines, such as the distribution of coal and oil for lighting, heating and transportation, is it not possible that in the future neither of these planetary resources will be required? These are two instances of the fundamental changes which the use of atomic energy may make in future civilized living.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conclusion of a twenty-five thousand year cycle or movement around what is called the lesser zodiac...The end of the Piscean Age. This simply means that the energies coming from Pisces during the last two thousand years, are now being rapidly superseded by energies coming from Aquarius. These result in major changes. p. 550/1”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic glass, It takes the light and ranges Through all the moods that pass; Dissects the common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of all The colours it forgets.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.”
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”
Alan Hirsch (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.”
Sallustius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Culture changes with .”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.”
David Harvey (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He needed some rather extensive changes in the relationship of the cosmos to himself.”
Murray Leinster (1896–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where protests do make powerful changes is in the hearts and minds of the participants themselves. Over and over, researchers find profound effects on those who join protest movements and social movements more broadly. They are often a gateway drug between casual participation and lifelong activism.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“superstition in fashion is always called religion, till the religion becomes out of fashion-then it again changes back into superstition.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Editor (April 30, 1856)
“[Any changes Mr Cameron could obtain from Brussels would be cosmetic and the UK risks becoming] a province of a United States of Europe”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Strong case' for EU referendum, says Hague BBC News (20 January 2013)
“I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension — tension is the only word for it — can be painted.”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time Magazine (20 October 1952).
“Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God’s person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I’m not changes more than what I am.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t think that a statement like this, issued saying that his ‘choice of words was not the best,’ changes anything.”
Sandra Fluke (born 1981) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The View interview with Sandra Fluke. . March 5, 2012. — cited in
“For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the past changes in the animate and inanimate world were brought about by sudden and paroxysmal action, or gradually and continuously by causes differing neither in kind nor degree from those now in operation.”
Charles Lyell (1797–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great changes are not caused by ideas alone; but they are not effected without ideas.”
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not necessary to think of gambling places; the statistician who applies statistical tests is engaged in a dignified sort of gambling, and in his case the distribution of the random variables changes from occasion to occasion.”
William Feller (1906–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.”
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We speak of the rigid framework of events, but the fact is there is some leeway. Apparently things tend to happen the way they should happen, according to whatever plan was dictated by whoever’s in charge of this stinking universe. Changes, if they are minor, correct themselves in ways no one understands but which tend to make a hash of anybody’s theory of free will.”
John Varley (1947–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Flowing along independently of the problems and policy streams is the political stream, composed of such things as public mood, pressure group campaigns, election results, partisan or ideological distributions in Congress, and changes of administration.”
John W. Kingdon (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Public policy changes in very large leaps, as in the New Deal of the 1930's, the Great Society of the mid-1960's, and the Reagan revolution of 1981. These spasms of reform are interspersed with periods of rest and stasis, as if the participants are exhausted from their exertion and catching their breath. But in any event, this does not look like Darwinian, gradualistic evolution.”
John W. Kingdon (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is made, Nothing disappears. The same changes, At the same places, Never stopping. The foundation and the roof With the world between Dreaming.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
Ransom Riggs (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems to us that the past is our property. Well, on the contrary — we are its property, because we are not able to make changes in it, while it fills the whole of our existence.”
Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only empirical work - analysis based on observation and experience as opposed to theory - can answer the question of how labor force behavior is affected by changes in the tax system. Even intense armchair speculation on this matter must be regarded with considerable skepticism.”
Harvey S. Rosen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How do you find what's going to make everybody have this strange reaction in their bodies, this response that's sort of chemical and physical all at once—this noise and emotion that changes how you sit? A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.”
Billy Crystal (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source