Top 100 Change Some Things Quotes
#1. Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.
Patrick McEnroe
#2. Maybe you and I can't do great things
We may not change the world in one day
But we still can change some things today ...
In our small way ...
Michael J. Jackson
#3. I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.
Ryan Lochte
#4. I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.
Ryan Lochte
#5. You must try to change some things in your society and all good changes first start attacking old rotten ideas, storming common cultural stupidities and raiding spiritual lies, fearlessly and even ruthlessly! And never forget that you can defat ideas only with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.
Richelle Mead
#7. Revenge is not worth the lives you will change. Some things must be let go to move on,
Amelia Hutchins
#8. There are things we can't change, and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#9. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
Patti Smith
#10. I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
Paula Danziger
#11. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.
Stephen King
#12. There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.
Lewis B. Smedes
#13. It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated - hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.
Toni Morrison
#14. The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
Nikki Giovanni
#15. Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else's old thoughts. It's important now, it's time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.
Neale Donald Walsch
#16. Some things come into your life for you to change them; some things come in to your life to change you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.
Juliet Marillier
#19. There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
Laura Esquivel
#20. But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less.
A. Lynn
#21. To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins
#22. Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they'd been disappointed too many times in life and just didn't have the courage to keep hoping things would change
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#23. And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.
Alexander Maksik
#24. Some things are unchangeably wild, others are stolidly tame. The tiger is wild, and the coyote, and the owl. I am tame, you are tame. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. But the dog lives in both worlds.
Mary Oliver
#25. We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
Peter Hook
#26. I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
#27. Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.
Julia Green
#28. The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close to Him.
Lauren F. Winner
#29. Maybe it's an issue of being unable or unwilling to realize that we can actually impact things sufficiently to change things, rather than seeing ourselves as being exiled to some distant side line of life where we can do nothing more than sheepishly root for a life that's far too far away to touch.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.
Izabel Goulart
#31. I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can't change.
Simon Van Booy
#32. Some things never changed.
Hope Ann
#33. But some things I didn't have to figure out. Some things hadn't changed, and some things never would.
Except me. I had changed, and I would give anything to change back.:
Kami Garcia
#34. There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
Marcus Aurelius
#35. I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.
Sarah Snook
#36. But some things never change. No matter what else happens in the universe - the fall of communism, the destruction of the ozone, the death of punk rock, whatever - you can at least put your faith in one thing: If a man is pretty, available, and breathing, Tommy will stick his dick in him.
Bart Yates
#37. Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different.
Joshua Caleb
#38. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.
Stephen Schwartz
#39. A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.
Orlan
#40. 'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.'
Barbara Elsborg
#41. One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
Peter Steele
#42. You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.
Neale Donald Walsch
#43. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.
EXO Books
#44. If you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.
Meg Wolitzer
#45. You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can't always give you what you want.
Jenny Downham
#46. We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.
George W. Bush
#47. I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
Tommy Lee
#48. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.
Lisa Brooks
#49. There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
Moira Young
#50. You can't spend a lot of time worrying about how things were. They won't change and there's some good.
Paige Shelton
#51. Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.
Kim John Payne
#52. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!
Stephen Schwartz
#53. I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
Sarah Dessen
#54. In my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.
Lisa Kleypas
#55. Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.
Tom Rath
#56. Some things never change. Not the ABC's, not the multiplication tables, not God!
Billy Graham
#57. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.
Kandyse McClure
#58. At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change.
J.R. Rim
#59. Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.
Donna VanLiere
#60. I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#61. Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.
J.S.B. Morse
#62. It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
Utah Phillips
#63. So most priests are weak men, but like all men, given some small authority, they become tyrants. And because so many priests are fools they will not think, but simply repeat the things they learned. Things change, but priests do not change. And now things are changing fast.
Bernard Cornwell
#64. Perhaps the same labeling obsession caused cartographers to split this body of water into two oceans, even though it is impossible to touch an exact point at which their currents begin to differ. Splitting. Labeling. Seeking out otherness. Some things don't change.
M.L. Stedman
#65. I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
Kieran Culkin
#66. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#67. You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.
Rob Thurman
#68. Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#69. While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
Bruce Hornsby
#70. There are only three things you can do when something falls from the sky,' my archdruid used to say. 'Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you.' Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me.
Kevin Hearne
#71. Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.
Debbie Macomber
#72. We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman
#73. It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.
Tracy Pollan
#74. Some things you just couldn't change, or transform, or wish away. Sometimes the path you were on only went one way. Sometimes, the truth wasn't what you wanted to hear.
S.C. Langgle
#75. Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#76. Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
Alice Hoffman
#77. Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.
Agatha Christie
#78. I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.
Kelsey Grammer
#79. The guys exchange scowls as I climb off the mattress with Jeb's arm securely around my waist. It's nice to see some things never change.
A.G. Howard
#80. It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change.
Immortal Technique
#81. Accept you are a work in progress, that there are things which you cannot change, others which take time to change and some which will be a shame to change.
Carol Vorvain
#82. It's really funny, I think to myself ... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
Brian Setzer
#83. Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.
Amy Neftzger
#84. Are you able to proclaim that you have been through some things and you survived it? You are a survivor. And if you are a survivor you are not a victim. You have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#85. Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change.
Rick Riordan
#86. So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.
Todd Tiahrt
#87. Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.
Stuart Duncan
#88. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#89. Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.
David Baldacci
#90. The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.
Andrew Revkin
#91. I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Nick Cave
#92. As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.
Robert De Niro
#93. But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us
Anna Smaill
#94. Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#95. I was like, JUST GREAT! Grandma is finally going SENILE! Doesn't she understand that some things in life you're STUCK with and powerless to change?! Jeez!
Rachel Renee Russell
#96. I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.
Melissa McCarthy
#97. Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Seneca The Younger
#98. Things could change Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You know about memories ... Gabe, there could be love.
Lois Lowry
#99. Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always assumed she'd have to endure.
Anna North
#100. Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.
Courteney Cox
