“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don’t think it’s going to happen soon.”
– Nick Clegg
“Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.”
– Jonathan Sacks
“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”
– Ivy Compton-Burnett
“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
– Jonathan Sacks
“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
“My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.”
– Tom Hanks
“I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can’t write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.”
– Harlan Coben
“You do have to change things as warfare changes.”
– Charles Schumer
“I’d be happy to be taken as a woman – and that’s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn’t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I’d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.”
– Eddie Izzard
“The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.”
– Gene Tierney
“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.”
– Jonathan Sacks
“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.”
– Pink
“I don’t want to clip on the armour every morning. I’ve seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I’m not going to change that one bit.”
– Nick Clegg
“Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.”
– Jonathan Sacks
“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”
– Rudy Giuliani
“We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.”
– Joan D. Vinge
“I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.”
– Debra Winger
“But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.”
– Damien Hirst
“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”
– Muqtada al Sadr
“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”
– Peace Pilgrim
“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.”
– Rainn Wilson
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”
– Jeff Cooper
“I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”
– Gael Garcia Bernal
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.”
– Margaret Cho
“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.”
– Charles Sanders Peirce
“Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.”
– Linda Ellerbee
“The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.”
– Al Gore