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“Our policy toward Taiwan has not changed at all. We remain committed to supporting peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and ensuring that there is no unilateral change to the status quo.”
Joe Biden (born 1942) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Biden says US military would defend Taiwan (23 May 2022)
“My dad used to say "A job’s about a lot more than a paycheck, it’s about your dignity, it’s about place in the community." What these guys do is they care about the dignity of the worker, and I see things are really beginning to change. I really believe it. And Senator Portman, since he's not running again, I can say all the nice things about him that I want.”
“Congress must act to codify Roe and the filibuster should not stand in the way. But right now, we don’t have the votes to change the filibuster. That means we need to elect more Democratic senators and reelect our House majority in November to get this bill to my desk.”
Joe Biden (born 1942) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6 July 2022 tweet
“[[w:Inflation Reduction Act of 2022#Energy and climate change|The [climate component of the] Inflation Reduction Act]] invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever . . . in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening . . . our energy security.”
“'How many spectral warriors does it take to change a light-bulb? One, and a stepladder. At a pinch, of course, he could stand on a chair.'”
“I’ve never heard you talk like this before.” “We all change with the passing of the days.”
Robert J. Sawyer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m old, and if that has one advantage, it’s perspective: I’ve seen so much change during my lifetime.”
Robert J. Sawyer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Peso but in a meantime called me William H though on a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunning throwing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.”
“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Verotchka (1887)
“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The period of 15 years from the last time we were in Scarborough, in 1960, to the middle of the 1970s, will embrace a period of technical change, particularly in industrial methods, greater than the whole of the industrial revolution of the last 250 years.”
Harold Wilson (1916–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
Harold Wilson (1916–1995) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France (23 January 1967), quoted in The New York Times (24 January 1967), p. 12.
“Africa is a continent which is subject to a great deal of friction and argument and change; that's [true] of the world generally but more so Africa than anywhere else. So because of that we live in hope, we think that the people in the end will say "We've had enough".”
Ian Smith (1919–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say to America, Europe, and the West: It is in your interests to change your relations and policies regarding the Arab and Islamic nation and the Palestinian cause. Because we are winning, it is in your interests to deal with the victors, not the losers.”
Khaled Mashal (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Israel will be defeated and will be of no use to you. The Arabs will be victorious. The Muslims will be victorious. Palestine will be victorious. Change your policy soon, if you want to protect your interests, and maintain healthy relations with the East.”
Khaled Mashal (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one could accept the fact that it is no longer important to be white, it would begin to cease to be important to be black. If we could accept the fact that no nation with 20 million black people in it for so long and with such a depth of involvement, that no nation under these circumstances can be called a white nation, this would be a great achievement, and it would change a great many things.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roundheads (1682).
“Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid — I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity — a poetic comedy that's really funny.”
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of Small Change, from When The Lights Go Down (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, ).
“My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.”
“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”
“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”
“All of Earth’s systems are complex, which means they do not respond to change in linear and steady ways. They absorb stress up to a certain point, then suddenly collapse. If one goes down, it can trigger the collapse of others: during previous mass extinctions, collapse seems to have cascaded from one ecosystem and Earth system to the next.”
George Monbiot (born 1963) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Earth is under threat, yet you would scarcely know it", The Guardian (28 September 2022)
“Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.”
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the result of a war is to change nothing, but only to destroy, with the mere result that a group of human beings who do not differ notably from the conquered acquires preponderant advantages for the future, there is lacking the affective strength of an existence that has inspired faith, of an existence whose destiny would have been decided by the war.”
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is questionable whether there does not exist in man an obscure and blind will to make war; an impulse towards change, towards emergence from the familiarities of everyday life and from the stabilities of well-known conditions — something like a will to death as a will to annihilation and self-sacrifice, a vague enthusiasm for the upbuilding of a new world.”
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Another War soon gets begun, A dirtier, a more glorious one; Then, boys, you'll have to play, all in; It's the cruellest team will win. So hold your nose against the stink And never stop too long to think. Wars don't change except in name; The next one must go just the same, And new foul tricks unguessed before Will win and justify this War.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These as they change, Almighty Father! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Thomson
“But I lose Myself in Him, in Light ineffable! Come then, expressive Silence, muse His praise. These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling Year Is full of Thee.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know if Native Son is a good book or a bad book. And I don't know if the book I'm working on now will be a good book or a bad book. And I really don't care. The mere writing of it will be more fun and a deeper satisfaction than any praise or blame from anybody. I feel that I'm lucky to be alive to write novels today, when the whole world is caught in the pangs of war and change.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every age of the world there has been an established system, which has been opposed from time to time by isolated and dissentient reformers. The established system has sometimes fallen, slowly and gradually: it has either been upset by the rising influence of some one man, or it has been sapped by gradual change of opinion in the many.”
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.”
Heath Ledger (1979–2008) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking on his problems with the paparazzi, as quoted in the National Post (May 2001).
“We are tired of having a 'sphere' doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is 'unwomanly'. We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks.”
Kate Sheppard (1847–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away. Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, Would entwine itself verdantly still.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.”
Ted Kulongoski (born 1940) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ted Kulongoski, (January 13, 2003). "Speech by Governor Kulongoski: Inaugural Address", Oregon.gov, State of Oregon.
“Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”
Christopher Paolini (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.’”
Christopher Paolini (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An interim candidate would not make a radical change.”
Günter Nooke (born 1959) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2000: "2 Kohl Party Contenders Have Strong Ties to Ex-Communist Region : German Politics Opens Up to the East
“When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That’s how wiki came about.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Startup mines for riches in collaboration software" in The Portland Tribune (7 March 2008)
“Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important. The ability to do things in the future is something that I consider suppleness, like clay your hands that accepts your expression. Programs and documents get brittle very quickly. Wiki imagines a more dynamic environment where we accept change...”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From start to finish, the same Wayne, okay you doin yo thang, but thangs change.”
“Out on bail work on the scale, put some change on your head, boy you on sale”
“We of Betand do not change our laws readily, so says my father, but we interpret them to our needs.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think he is a wicked man.” Sam said doggedly, “Are you so sure he is wicked, Lilla? Perhaps, away from here, he might change.” “We Gharm have a saying. Perhaps, away from the pond, the frog would grow feathers.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Things are as they are, and no amount of wishful thinking will change them!”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When agony is not present, no matter how imminent it looms, painful change must come from outside. This is a truth.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source