Quotes About Change

I no longer have it (desire to play).

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.

When desire dies, fear is born.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.