The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
– Susan Sontag
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
– John Maxwell
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
– Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
– Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
– R. D. Laing
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
– Max Lerner
The reason we feel old is cuz we live old...change the way you live and you"ll change the way you feel.
– Sharday Williams
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
– Charles R. Swindoll
The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did Good for him
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
– Flannery O'Connor
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
– Charles Franklin Kettering
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
– Sidney Madwed
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
– Oswald Mosley
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
– Donald J. Adams
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
– Joe Keenan
There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
– Euripides
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
– Chief Seattle
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
– Michael Gartner
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
– Jan Ashford
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
– Confucius
They often say, “What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?”. Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.
– Kedar Joshi
