Quotes About Change

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.

Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

We cannot keep on carrying burdens of the past and keep ruining our future.

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.

If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

Ebola has changed everything in West Africa. We cannot sit back and say, 'Oh, those poor people.' We must think outside the box and find ways to help.

We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two generations after us to live like that. It is impossible.

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.