Things Change famous quotes
04-17-2025
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We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.
-- Abbi Glines -
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
-- Aimee Carter -
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
-- Alice Walker -
Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.
-- Alison Pick -
Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
-- Ally Condie -
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.
-- Andy Andrews -
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
-- Anita Hill -
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.
-- Bill Keating -
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.
-- Carl Sagan -
Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
-- Chad Hodge -
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
-- Charles Schumer -
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
-- Clint Eastwood -
It's not going to be easy to change things.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
-- Dennis Quaid -
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it
-- Eli Wallach -
After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
-- Elizabeth Hawes -
Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.
-- Eric Burdon -
I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.
-- Ernesto Neto -
Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
-- Gary Busey -
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
-- Gautama Buddha -
The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
-- Georgie Anne Geyer -
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.
-- Gilles Deleuze -
Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
-- Grace Slick -
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
-- Greg Egan -
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
-- Gunter Grass -
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
-- Guy Finley -
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
-- Henri Nouwen -
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
-- Henry Rollins -
They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
-- Holly Black -
Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
-- James A. Belasco -
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
-- James E. Burke -
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
-- James Hillman -
Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.
-- Jay Crownover -
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
-- Joan Baez -
Change is inevitable in music - things change.
-- John Coltrane -
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
-- John Spence -
Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
-- Judy Blume -
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
-- Jules Shear -
But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.
-- Julia Glass -
If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.
-- Julian Barbour -
Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change
-- Julian Lennon -
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
-- Julie Walters -
Only love and death will change all things.
-- Khalil Gibran -
Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.
-- Klaus Schulze -
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.
-- Kyle Cease -
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
-- Lawrence Block -
To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.
-- Lee Hammond -
In time and with water, everything changes.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.
-- Lights -
What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
-- Liz Phair -
The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.
-- Mark Matousek -
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
-- Mary Augusta Ward -
When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.
-- Maya Forbes -
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
-- Meryl Streep -
Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.
-- Michael W. Smith -
Things change, and not always for the better.
-- Michelle Moran -
Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.
-- Mika -
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
-- Pat Benatar -
If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.
-- Paul Allaire -
In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
-- Rachael Leigh Cook -
I think your ambition for something changes as you go.
-- Rob Delaney -
Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.
-- Robert Ringer -
Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?
-- Sam Ewing -
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
-- Savitri Devi -
When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.
-- Scott Heiferman -
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
-- Ted Sizer -
As a part of the NFL, things change every year.
-- Tom Brady -
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
-- Trina Schart Hyman -
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.
-- Tupac Shakur -
Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really.
-- Tyler Christopher -
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
-- Umberto Eco -
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
-- Vinnie Jones -
The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.
-- Wendy Williams -
It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
-- William B. Davis -
The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.
-- Daniel Lapin -
To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is nothing radical, this notion of things constantly changing, and that the change is not inherently destructive.
-- Dario Robleto -
In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.
-- G.W. Sok -
We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.
-- Ira Kaplan -
Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.
-- Isha Judd -
We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.
-- John Buffalo Mailer -
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.
-- Kory Stamper -
I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.
-- Luke Mitchell -
Things changed a little when I started taking photographs for magazines. I was afraid in the beginning. I thought, "Oh I can't do it, because I have never taken a photographs commercially for a magazine." But I wanted to learn so I started. But when I took models from agencies, I took beginners. Sometimes they were really good, but you have to work with them. You have to be good with women and the boys.
-- Walter Pfeiffer
