Quotes About Change

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

A little revolution is a good thing.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

The good thing about coming over to the UK is that I can get some rest.

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.