Quotes About Change

The Warriors, when Kevin Durant came, they played more iso ball than the year before. Kevin Durant made them change who they were because of his talent.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of organized police forces, the dawn of forensic science, and the rise and fall of Romanticism?

I remember, when they started remaking 'Star Wars,' the fury that surrounded that whole thing, and, 'How dare they?' But now, that's just a common denominator.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

'Star Wars' is different to anything I've done before.

Wars break things; they break stories.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

It's during wartime that innovations happen.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

Conservatives are wary of change. We have respect for things that have lasted a long time and have been proved to work. When things need changing, we should make the changes with respect to all the reasons why those things worked originally as well as the reasons why amendment is necessary.