Changing Quotes
2510 quotes by 1949 authors
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He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the…
— Jodi Picoult
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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in…
— William Butler Yeats
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It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies…
— Edward Said
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When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
— William Butler Yeats
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You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional…
— Isaac Asimov
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing…
— George Orwell
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Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
— Dean Koontz
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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking…
— Thomas Sowell
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The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this…
— Dave Barry
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
— Gloria Steinem
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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I…
— Carl Jung
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Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense,…
— Michael Crichton
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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in…
— Orson Scott Card
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We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the…
— Sarah Dessen
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The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
— Margaret Atwood
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The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide…
— Shannon Hale
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