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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

And it was not until Kevin Pietersen came in and took the way things away from Australia that things really changed. It was a sensational innings. [2005 Ashes win at the Oval]
Marcus Trescothick

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore

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

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself.
Lord Byron

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert

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

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
[Up From Eden (1981)]
Ken Wilber

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith

On Thursday [when the game of croquet took place] the deputy prime minister was not standing in for the prime minister.

He stands in for him only when he goes on holiday. He went on holiday on Saturday.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]
Paul Clark

It was very tough to play. It was very tough to move. Even with an ice bag during the changeover, even with the hat, all in white, it was very, very tough to play good tennis. It was way too hot to play
Fabrice Santoro

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

Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip.
Dan Jenkins

Nay, why should I fear Death,
Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath?
Frederic Lawrence Knowles

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

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Langer

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Alexander Chase

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon

I live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.
Angela Lindvall

A girl is allowed to change her mind and also this is something that we have only seriously started this year really.
Melanie Chisholm

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which
Charles Francis Adams

As times change, you want to really revere your heredity, but you don't want to be a shrine.
Kitty D'Alessio

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

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

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
H G Wells

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.
Michael Scott

I'm no good at DIY. I'm terrible with computers, too. And decorating. But I can change a tyre.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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

My dad wasn't thrilled at my wanting to act. He even offered to pay for a computer course if I'd change my mind!
Marcia Harden

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

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

If we fail to mitigate climate change, then consequences will be stark and severe
Terry Leahy

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
George Orwell

Looking back on some of the outfits that we wore, all I can say is that we all did it at the time and thought they looked great... fashions change over time after all!
Carol Decker

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

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

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder

'If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.'
Jack Welch

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.
Angela Carter

Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
Natalie Portman

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not
liberate, it oppresses.
Joe Ancis

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S Byatt

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

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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