Change Quotes

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.