Quotes About Forcing Change

#1. In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

Susan L. Taylor

#2. Goodbye is a strange concept - if the person being left behind resents it and refuses to accept it, is it still goodbye, or simply a departure?

Marla Miniano

#3. You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Mario Batali

#4. You men have been forcing us to change our names for the last four thousand years. Why don't we switch it up? You lot can take our names for the next few millennia and see how you like it.

Deanna Raybourn

#5. I've got to quit trying to play the Holy Spirit's role by forcing, manipulating, talking, and programming people into the change I want to see. Instead I've got to spend more time praying that the Holy Spirit would come into their lives and regenerate them.

Francis Chan

#6. The truth is that anything worthwhile we do in life demands effort.

Rosalie De Rosset

#7. I did not want to die at all. Understand that. But I could not let everything be destroyed, when I had it in my power to stop the destruction.

Neil Gaiman

#8. And I would give my
self to this light just to have my
brother and mother
by each
other's side. I would
swim back to the
ocean
and birth a creature
of acceptance; I would if it let me.
I would give it all away.

A.P. Sweet

#9. White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Idris Elba

#10. Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

Ida Rolf

#11. We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

Tim Brown

#12. Kathel opened his eyes as the wood he was touching went up in flames. He then realized he was still holding Mahgen's hand. He released it immediately, completely thrown by the fact that he had no brain.
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

#13. She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

Kiera Cass

#14. Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#15. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

Edwin Booth

#16. The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

Gordon Brown

#17. Special people change us in an instant. Forcing us to ask the deeper questions. They inspire us to be better.They bring meaning to our lives in ways that make perfect sense in our hearts.

Rebekah Lyons

#18. My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#19. I was a diva for thinking that my life would dramatically change when I came out of the gigantic closet-o-porn.

Iris Blaire

#20. It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing me to hold tightly to another and then another.

Ken Davis

#21. Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

William James

#22. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Kate Bernheimer

#23. If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V.S. Naipaul

#24. Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

Lewis Thomas

#25. His look darkens and he heaves me against his chest forcing me to look at him. What I do know is that you are disrespectful and disobedient. And that is something that we have to change, don't we?

Aileen Rose

#26. It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Agatha Christie