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It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.
Beryl Bainbridge

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the centre of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert Camus

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.
Sara Cox

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
Benedict Spinoza

Love is something eternal - the aspect may change but not the essence
Vincent Van Gogh

The way I play has got me where I am today and why should I suddenly change that now?
Danny Mills

Dreams are the seeds of change.
Debby Boone

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve
Warren Gatland

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman

He has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
Anonymous

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on
James Hilton

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed colour.
Dennis Rodman

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden

A true friend... adventures boldly, takes all things patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is yours: the drop returns from where it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
Alexander Pope

The established way of doing things is thus so because it has worked and created stability and prosperity in the past, do not rush to change.
Alfred Fried

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.
Eddie Irvine

Now that it's all said and done I would say that there are certain things that I would have kept exactly the same and certain things I would have changed.
Garrett Wang

You must be the change you wish to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi

Change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
Ron Burton

Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicolas Chamfort

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confined him home (The Rebel Scot)
John Cleveland

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy Graham

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney Harris

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living
Andrew Flintoff

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding

The reason the prime minister has cancelled this election is because the Conservative Party is making the arguments about the changes this country needs.
David Cameron

It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People think I've got my nose done, my chin done. I just laugh at it. I'm just losing my baby fat - everyone grows up and changes.
Audrina Patridge

A blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
Liam Byrne

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito Mussolini

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Lucius Cary

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernising sloganising [on Thatcher's first shadow cabinet]
Geoffrey Howe

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius

Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
Julian Barbour

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock

The presence of a long term and conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
Mary Craig

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.
Billy Corgan

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D H Lawrence



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