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She worked hard to be as inclusive as possible and encouraged those who were at the edge of society and politics to become involved to change things for the better [on Mo Mowlam]
Peter Hain

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
Ella Baker

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
Alec Baldwin

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

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony Blair

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then ‘process’
Edward De Bono

'I don't believe in God, but when I see Laeticia, I might change my mind.'
- Vivienne Westwood on Laeticia
Laeticia Casta

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand

Belief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff Gordon

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
Peter De Vries

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done. [Unlike most people who say 'and I'd do it all again!]
Ray Davies

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

It is a good thing to have policies and rules in place, but you have to realise that they can't always be exact and will need to change from time to time.
Robin Gross

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain viewdream
Ella Wilcox

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Richard Clark

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Ambrose Bierce

I'll never change. I'm just little old me. [upon winning]
Chantelle Houghton

I think when you realise that something will genuinely be fatal it changes the way that you view it and how you act towards it.
Richard Hell

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

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it
Ken Livingstone

You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them.
Albert Einstein

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
Glenda Cloud

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Michael Howard

I certainly think the drinks industry should be contributing to the cost of keeping order in city centres. [Shortly after she changed this to saying they should help... voluntarily!]
Tessa Jowell

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
Teri Hatcher

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

Because every punter has to register full identity details to open an account with exchanges, and sign a declaration allowing the authorities access to that account, it is more likely that we are today seeing the results of this extra source of intelligence. [on scandals in betting]
J A McGrath

'Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed' - Spies
Michael Frayn

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

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

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
Stuart Wilde

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J B Priestley

A good example from the biological world of complex changes appearing to be simple is the belief in spontaneous generation.
Michael Behe

Only the wisest and stupidest of men don't change.
Confucius

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.
Roy Rogers

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
Olivia Newton-John

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

For us the biggest change in the Australian market over the last five to ten years has been local companies becoming more international in their focus, which plays to our strengths.
Stuart Davis



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