People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can’t change their minds.
People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
We can’t change the past. We can only get ready for the future.
I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don’t think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it’s awful to hear and read what is said of you.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
Climate changes are caused by solar radiation and other natural phenomena, so I don’t worry one bit about that. Nothing we do can change anything in the climate.
When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.
My goal for the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is to create systemic change across all school systems. I want there to be diverse books that reflect the lives of every person, regardless of whether or not they are in the majority.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn’t mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
Some people change when they think they’re a star or something.
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it’s increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
If you don’t change, you’re dead, so I try to keep changing.
There’s a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.
One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
One thing I’m not going to do is change up anything. Like, I’m always gonna be me.
