A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana
People can cry much easier than they can change. – James A. Baldwin
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change. – Jesse Jackson
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. – Mason Cooley
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. – Richard M. Nixon
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. – Richard M. Nixon
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. – John Henry Newman
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. – James Russell Lowell
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. – Marilyn Manson
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. – Laurence Sterne
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. – Alexander Pope
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. – Carter G. Woodson
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. – Jim DeMint
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. – Mary McLeod Bethune
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. – Henry Rollins
