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Quotes About Change

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
~ Emma Thompson
A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
~ Naomi Klein
Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.
~ Richard Thaler
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
~ Frank Rich
Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
~ Steve Winwood
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
~ Rick Perlstein
Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.
~ Andreja Pejic
When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.
~ Lynda Carter
Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.
~ Vijayashanti
We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
~ Andrew Young
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.
~ Daryl Davis
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
~ Cornel West
Trump is the worst. I mean, he is like a shape shifter. You can't nail him down. It is like the last gasp, the last bastion of old white males, of white supremacy and hegemony.
~ Anne Waldman
There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.
~ Liu Xiaobo
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
~ Paul P. Harris
When I see the Trump supporters on television explaining themselves, I don't get a feeling of supreme confidence. They've created a revolution, and now maybe they're a little scared by it.
~ Robert J. Shiller
And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
~ Cecile Richards
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.
~ Lisa Blatt
I was so frustrated after 2016 with the Republican Party. When we had the House, the presidency and the Senate, and we had a pretty fair Supreme Court, I really expected to see all of these things that Republicans have wanted for so long finally come to fruition, but then it all kind of fell flat on its face.
~ Madison Cawthorn
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
~ Jane Austen
If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.
~ Ray Lewis
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery