Quotes About Change

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.

We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.

One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.