I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

There is nothing permanent except change.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Revolutions go not backward.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

You can’t do something forever.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.