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

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The status quo sucks.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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

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.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

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

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

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

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

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.