Quotes About Change

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

We have been very reluctant to make statements about where the industry is going to go. The Wrangler is going hybrid in 2020. We don't make much noise about that, but it will happen.

There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around racism - education is key.

Cultural change is always incremental, so the most important thing for any right-leaning artist, writer, or media mogul is to focus less on making political statements and more on producing high-quality work.

History will do what it always does. It will make ignorant statements, in retrospect, seem shortsighted and discriminatory, and the women who will serve their country bravely in the jobs that are now opening up will prove them wrong. Just like we always have.

Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power?

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

Food is never static; culture is never static.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.