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.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Things do not change; we change.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

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

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.