925 private quotes tagged change

“There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.” — Brett Favre

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“I don't change. The things around me change.” — Jeremy Renner

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“We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.” — Joan D. Vinge

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“I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.” — Eddie Izzard

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“The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.” — Gene Tierney

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“I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.” — Harlan Coben

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“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.” — Rudy Giuliani

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“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett

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“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.” — Tom Hanks

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“I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.” — Nick Clegg

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“Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.” — Pat Riley

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“When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.” — Gwen Stefani

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“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” — Susan Sontag

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“I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.” — Alice Walker

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“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.” — M. Scott Peck

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“It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.” — Michelle Obama

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“For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.” — Timothy Zahn

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“Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.” — Vanessa Paradis

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“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.” — John Boyd Orr

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