We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions go not backward.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

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

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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

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.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Life is warfare.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

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.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

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

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

The status quo sucks.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

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

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.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.