Quotes About Change

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

They've been having wars for ten thousand years and you're not gonna stop it this way," Kesey tells the assembled crowd. He winds up to it. "There's only one thing's gonna do any good at all," he says. "And that's everybody just look at it, look at the war, and turn your backs and say… fuck it.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

You cannot step twice in the same river--Heraclitus

New York is an organic city, one that is always in transition. Within a lifetime (often in only a few decades) neighborhoods grow, gain prominence, peak, and return to oblivion.

And there is hope on the road. It's a by-product of forward momentum. A sense of opportunity, as wide as the country itself. A bone-deep conviction that something better will come.

People come and go in your life. You don't get to hang onto them forever.

would have no chance to leave a better one.

There's an important difference between GIVING UP and LETTING GO! - Jessica Hatchingan.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Second is, don't try to change user behavior dramatically. If you are expecting people to dramatically change the way they do things, it's not going to happen. Try to make it such that it's a small change, yet an important one.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?

Her mind circled and darted like a bird whose nest has been destroyed.

You change with the guys you date.