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

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
André Gide

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

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
David Miliband

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

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.
Lord Caradon

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh

When he has tried to change his personality for PR purposes, it's been excruciatingly embarrassing... I think he's much better off being himself [on gordon brown]
Vince Cable

Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
(Times go by Turns, 1595)
Robert Southwell

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

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

There are good reasons for doing this now, because of the change to technology, the fact that we will have to pay for biometric passports and the ID card part of it is a very small additional cost [on introducing ID cards]
Tony Blair

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. [Inspiring quote]
Jimmy Dean

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.
John Hartford

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny Craig

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.
Jane Bown

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

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

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
David Letterman

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

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

As the turning of logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies will a dull brain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Paul's not right for us because it's too closely linked to Gazza [on his name change to... G8!]
Paul Gascoigne

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Sarah Caldwell

I spoke to him. I was speaking English and then changed to French on purpose and he changed with me at the same time [Petr Cech]
Jose Mourinho

It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
Barbra Streisand

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

Change is something's having incompatible properties at different times.
D H Mellor

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Mary Sarton

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
Kristen Swanson

I would also change the advantage rule. I think they should play advantage to the next breakdown and then make the captain the offer instead of letting the game run for two or three minutes. [in rugby]
Duncan Fletcher

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

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

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

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

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.
Graham Thorpe



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