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“HIV is not a death sentence. Stigma is. The moment we treat people with compassion, everything changes.”
Bisi Alimi (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think there is a current shift in thinking and culture, as well as changes that accommodate new understandings of being a man. Is it a crisis? I would say it is evolving, as opposed to being in crisis.”
Cinga Samson (born 1986) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ 21 February 2020
“At the end of the day, it is up to them, I do not want to pre-empt anything and say such changes would assist us or not because we are just referees applying the clauses as we know them. If and when FIFA decides to introduce goal line technology we will cross that bridge when we get to it.”
Jerome Damon (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know what the factors that are influencing that not to happen in that way are, but I hope that changes actually.”
Kamohelo Mokotjo (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I don’t think our preparation changes much; the other [All Blacks] loose forwards, in my experience, are just as experienced as he [Savea] is – they’ve played in big games as well.”
Jasper Wiese (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said: 'Everything just changes [when you go on the track], you look different, your eyes are red' – because I was so nervous. I actually knew everything he was telling me but I didn't know what to do to really avoid getting so nervous and really thinking about the outcome of everything so much.”
Asafa Powell (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you get older, your goals and what you want out of life changes, but you will also remember what you wanted as a kid, and this is what I wanted as a young boy”
Robert Ebersohn (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There haven’t been too many changes, just a couple of players and the rookie player being new to the setup.”
Beuran Hendricks (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everywhere I go, the element of the weather changes. That's my superpower”
Jade Cargill (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are other advantages... [I]n every arch the curve of pressure changes according to the position of the load; this means that every arch must be prepared for work by deflection or tension.”
Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So I don't think it changes too much whether you're batting a bit higher up or lower down.”
Marizanne Kapp (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas against the first [full-strength] Indian team that I played in Mumbai [in the ODI], after two balls I felt in. It changes.”
AB de Villiers (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every time I go out to bat I have got the same mindset. Nothing changes. All the formats.”
AB de Villiers (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes a common scene in nature—one of the common relations of life—will open itself to us with a brightness and pregnancy of meaning unknown before. Sometimes a thought of this kind forms an era in life. It changes the whole future course. It is a new creation.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dress changes the manners.”
Voltaire (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode their rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which those changes can be reversed.”
Adolf Hitler (misattributed) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fake quote, according to snopes.com (11 Jan 2016)
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Laozi (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many statements paraphrase or extend upon his famous assertions that "everything changes" in ways which arguably diverge from valid translation, and yet have become widely attributed to Heraclitus:”
Heraclitus (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! O crow, give up this life and live anew! In view of God’s changes cast away your life! Choose the new, give up the old, For each single present year is better than three past.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
John Maynard Keynes (attributed) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reply to a criticism during the Great Depression of having changed his position on monetary policy, as quoted in "The Keynes Centenary" by Paul Samuelson, in The Economist Vol. 287 (June 1983), p. 19; later in The Colle…
“Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
Zig Ziglar (misattributed) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Though sometimes credited to Ziglar on the internet, this is credited to Marie Fraser in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory
“However great the power of time may be, yet it never entirely obliterates the remembrance and influences of the past; even though the mind may have long remained unoccupied by the emotions immediately produced by those events. With all its changes, it is time itself which has given that which may be regarded as true existence, and which may be justly said to be independent even of time.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a remarkable time of my life. I don’t think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. I have no regrets about doing it at all.”
Timothy Dalton (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.”
Oliver Herford (attributed) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
“The real difficulty was caused by too precipitate liberalization... The Americans and the British kept pushing me; they wanted a democratic republic. They wanted me to be more liberal with my opponents. The changes were genuine on my part. But Iran is not ready for Western-style democracy.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (attributed) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Marvin Zonis (1991), Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, page 109
“Nothing changes without blood flowing.”
Tom Metzger (attributed) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Rom._ Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- _Jul._ O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We don't want our children to be bombarded by sex changes.”
Nicki Minaj (born 1982) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nicki Minaj joins Trump onstage in Michigan: ‘I will continue to support you forever’" Open (October 26, 2026)
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) said by 1600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.
“When the Deep Impact probe hit Comet 9P/Tempel, there was almost no change in brightness. … This outburst by Comet Holmes is extreme!”
Brian G. Marsden (1937–2010) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the unprecedented brightening of Comet Holmes, as quoted in "Mystery Comet Explodes into Brightness" (26 October 2007) at Physorg.com. Within the space of a few hours between 23-24 October 2007 it brightened from a v…
“Questions don't change the truth, but they give it motion.”
Giannina Braschi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go vegan because you want to change something in yourself or in the world and then do more. Eating a certain way isn’t enough; we have to do something about the world we live in. Anyone who wants to be vegan or cares about the earth or the life on earth should read a book called Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”
Andy Hurley (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wept that all must die — "Yet Love," I cried, "doth live, and conquer death —" And Time passed by, And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breath Ere Death was nigh.More bitter far than all It was to know that Love could change and die — Hush! for the ages call "The Love of God lives through eternity, And conquers all!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I vowed unvarying faith, and she To whom in full I pay that vow, Rewards me with variety Which men who change can never know.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is true that these courts will gradually change in character. As the state dies out, they will tend to become simply organs for the expression of public opinion. They will assume the character of courts of arbitration. Their decisions will no longer be enforced by physical means and will have a purely moral significance.”
Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.”
“You shall not change, but a nobler race of men Shall walk beneath the stars and wander by the shore; I can not guess their glory, but I think the sky and sea Will bring to them more gladness than they brought to us of yore.”
William Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.”
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands”
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Yolanda Brooks, Do Animals Have Rights? (2008), p. 23
“So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man could change, if only to survive.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.”
Anastacia (born 1968) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anastacia in breast cancer fight, BBC Newsroom, January 21, 2003.
“Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak’s Broadway to Chicago.”
Andre Dubus (1936–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source