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“To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.”
Bobby Jindal (born 1971) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Governors Know Best", The Washington Post, November 9, 2008
“I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.”
Javon Ringer (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the well-being of all of us.”
Angela Merkel (born 1954) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Damian Carrington, "Climate change will determine humanity's destiny, says Angela Merkel", , 15 November 2017 (page visited on 15 November 2017).
“Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amid the turmoil of change, old people could do no more than wonder what had hit them, and long without enthusiasm for the simpler past.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Governments don’t change things,” she said. “Only time does that.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the evidence says you’re wrong, you don’t have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[God] puts a new spirit within [homosexuals], and gives them a new heart with new desires. Thousands of ex-gays attest to the power of God to change lives.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No enjoyment on this sad old earth has come even close to the unending pleasures that God has prepared 'for those that love Him.' This is the teaching of the Bible. And you are going to miss out, simply because you refuse to change your mind, repent, and trust the Saviour.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the attentions change / the jungle leaps in even the stones are split they rive”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instead of change, please give me gun so i can shoot you." She is soft-spoken but short and full of rage lately, like her whole life.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.”
Bo Burnham (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The major challenges facing humanity today are global – climate change, accessible fresh water, ever decreasing bio-diversity and over population. These problems call for global solutions and these solutions will require co-operation on a global scale unparalleled in history. Peace is the essential prerequisite to create the environment to achieve the levels of co-operation necessary.”
Steve Killelea (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peace and Sustainability: Cornerstones to survival in the 21st century (2007)
“It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...they have brainwashed us into believing in the last 150 years... that quantitative change is superior to qualitative attributes. If we can turn out more... it doesn't matter if they're half as good. ...We're quantifying everything, and that is why we're trying to put everything on computers. Governments will no longer have to make decisions; computers will do it.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On bourgeois ground … change is impossible anyway even if it were desired. In fact, bourgeois interest would like to draw every other interest opposed to it into its own failure; so, in order to drain the new life, it makes its own agony apparently fundamental, apparently ontological. The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.”
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Principle of Hope (1959), N. Plaice, trans. (1986), p. 4
“I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.”
M. Ward (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his album Post-War and the postwar music of the late 1940s and 50s, as quoted in Vanity Fair (August 2006)
“Christian life is action: not a speculating, not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts — lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have not found anti-intellectualism a problem at the Polaroid Corporation, except in the very initial state of penetration. It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!”
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at Columbia University, as quoted in The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1992), p. 537
“There can be a hundred people in the room and ninety nine don't believe in you and just one person believes in you and it can change everything.”
Lady Gaga (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing to change in my painting was the color [c. 1908-09]. I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mondrian about 1905-1910; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet Mondrian; Wittenborn-Schultz Inc., New York, 1945, p. 10; as cited in De Stijl…
“We arrive at a portrayal of other things, such as the laws governing matter. These are the great generalities – Which do not change.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: note in Mondrian's sketchbook II, 1912/13; as quoted in Two Mondrian sketchbooks 1912 - 1914, ed. Robert P. Welsh & J. M. Joosten, Amsterdam 1969 op. cit. (note 31), p. 61
“Give me that palette.. ..those two woodcocks.. ..turn this one's head to the left.. ..give me back my palette.. ..I can't paint that beak.. ..Quick, some paint.. ..change the position of those woodcocks...”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote from a letter written by Félix Fénéon, published in 'Le Bulletin des artistes' 15th December 1919
“Of all the media of expression employed by man (and let us never forget that they are many) none are so unstable, none so quick to change their meaning, as words. Even sculpture, architecture, painting, in their noblest works, speak differently under different conditions; but these arts are relatively immortal compared with speech.”
L. P. Jacks (1860–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2
“In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if you want to change the conversation, you really do have to step into the murky waters, don’t you?”
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am never not cross-referencing the trees with the forests, and it can be a very exhausting way to engage – but I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I believe communities need thinkers like me.”
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How could you change a boy’s bedding every week and feed him breakfast and drive him to the orthodontist and not know him at all?”
Jodi Picoult (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is still an unending source of surprise for me to see how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a sheet of paper could change the course of human affairs.”
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.”
Louise Burfitt-Dons (born 1953) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech, Institute of Physics, London (June 2008)
“I'm trying to be a professional singer. … I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.”
Susan Boyle (born 1961) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to a question by Simon Cowell as to what her dream was, on Britain's Got Talent (11 April 2009) - YouTube video
“'Tis only Man, mischievous Man, that can make Death a Sport. Nature taught your Stomach to crave nothing but Vegetables; but your violent Fondness to change, and greater Eagerness after Novelties, have prompted you to the Destruction of Animals without Justice or Necessity, perverted your Nature and warp'd your Appetites which way soever your Pride or Luxury have call'd them.”
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) said by 1733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.”
James Martineau (1805–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”
Gary Kildall (1942–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are no constitutional revolutions, no violent reversals of legislation; custom is far more potent than law, and custom is modified infinitesimally every day. An alteration of law is often the mere registration of a custom, when men have recognised its altered character. The names of offices and assemblies are permanent, whilst their character has imperceptibly undergone essential change.”
William Stubbs (1825–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... theoretical physics is less clean than the way it's usually solved. You can always change parameters and save yourself. ... it's very rare that theories are ruled out by just an experiment or a group of experiments. Theories usually come with flexibility. Theoreticians can add flexibility. And so new experiments — you can just patch up your theory.”
Carlo Rovelli (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If homosexuals are allowed to change the law in their favor, why not prostitutes, thieves, or murderers? [...] Some of the stories I could tell you of child recruitment and child abuse by homosexuals would turn your stomach.”
Anita Bryant (1940–2024) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Morton Kondracke (1980). "Anita Bryant Is Mad About Gays", The New Republic, p. 13–14.
“Fools pretend to foretell what will be the issue of things, and are laughed at for their awkward conjectures. Wise men being aware of the uncertainty of human aflairs, and having observed how small a matter often produces a great change, are modest in their conjectures.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) said by 1775 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men repent speaking ten times, for once that they repent keeping silence. It is an advantage to have concealed one's opinion; for by that means you may change your judgment of things (which every wise man fmds reason to do) and not be accused of fickleness.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) said by 1775 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bloodmourn said on the trip cross country that he frequently needed a change of human beings. To vary the flavour of the treacheries.”
J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product.”
Fernando J. Corbató (1926–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.”
Kevin Warwick (born 1954) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Kevin Warwick "Cyborg 1.0", Wired, pp.145-151, February 2000.
“Times go by turns and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.”
Robert Southwell (priest) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.”
Sadhguru (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reality of the 'Maunder Minimum' and its implications of basic solar change may be but one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think that sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science.”
John A. Eddy (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.”
Dennis Lindley (1923–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He couldn’t give in to assuming he was cursed, or had bad luck, or whatever it was. Superstition never got a man anywhere. But he had to admit, the pattern was disturbing. If he acted as he always had before, how could he expect different results? He had to try something new. Change, somehow. This was going to take more thought.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source