Quotes About Change

Jeremy Corbyn... love him. Right person, right time. He's like a poultice, drawing Blairite disease out of the Labour party.

If you are a junior member of a minority party - one of 100 people - in the U.S. Senate, what really can you do? Well, you're just going to get frustrated.

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

I definitely used to be a party girl.

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

I've changed my whole life around, I've devoted my life for tennis instead of partying. I'm very happy, you know, I'm 27, I really feel like I have another 5 years left in me, and I still, honestly feel like I have still got the best tennis, best things ahead of me.

People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!

My lifestyle is completely different from what it was before, I am not 23 years old anymore, I am focused on training and fighting, not night clubs and partying.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don't ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.