Said Change Quotes

#1. The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Nora Roberts

#3. We must have tranquillity." "In a technological world," MacDonald said, "change is inevitable. What you must have for tranquillity is reasonable change, manageable change.

James Edwin Gunn

#4. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Stanley Cavell

#5. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled.

Carrie Vaughn

#6. You have grown a little beard, I said.
You see it is not true that one can't change.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#7. As one of Henrietta's relatives said to me, "If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that's dishonest. It's taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves." In

Rebecca Skloot

#8. I think people get intimidated, and they think results should happen right away. Like I said earlier, the body can only change so fast, and so when you're doing it right you just have to keep at it and keep up with a balanced program.

Daniel Cudmore

#9. He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed

Michael Thomas Ford

#10. People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's

Donna Leon

#11. When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Deepak Chopra

#12. I thought it was the opposite," Scarlett said. "The past is set but the future is changeable?" "No. The past is only mostly set, and the future is harder to change than you would think.

Stephanie Garber

#13. I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Charles," he replied.

Edith Pattou

#14. Flowers said, "I got two bottles of water in the car."
"Get them. And get your gun," Lucas said.
"The gun? You think?"
"No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin' gun for a change," Lucas said. "C'mon, let's get moving.

John Sandford

#15. My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Daisy Donovan

#16. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...

Joan Bauer

#17. We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.

Cassandra Clare

#18. If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?

Cassandra Clare

#19. It's going to happen whether you like it or not," he said quietly.
The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. "What's that?"
"Change," Rich said. "It's inevitable.

Danika Stone

#20. Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change of heart first." "Well, then ... how do I change their heart?" "You can't, Missy Caroline," he said gently. "Only Massa Jesus can change folks' hearts.

Lynn Austin

#21. You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said.

Kate Atkinson

#22. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

#23. It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

Michelle Bachelet

#24. I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

Nick Minchin

#25. Woman can change better'n man," Ma said soothingly. "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

John Steinbeck

#26. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Franklin P. Adams

#27. Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.

Vinod Khosla

#28. And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ... We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

Niles Eldredge

#29. It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.

Gregory David Roberts

#31. Different time, different place," I said. "Things can change. People can change.

Richelle Mead

#32. What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.

Margaret Atwood

#33. Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our

Andy Stanley

#34. We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

David Harsanyi

#35. The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

Aaron Siskind

#36. It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#37. There is nothing but heartache for a coru woman and a hunti man," she said, deliberately contrary. "He cannot control her and she cannot change him."
"He never fails her and she always moves him," Darien corrected. "She can trust his strength, and he can be lifted by her joy.

Sharon Shinn

#38. But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.

Margaret Atwood

#39. What are we doing?" Mags asked. "I don't know. ... " he said eventually. "I know things have to change, but ... I can't lose you. I don't think I get another one like you.

Stephanie Perkins

#40. I've often said that great things can happen to you and for you, but if it doesn't happen in you, then the way you view yourself won't change.

Maria Durso

#41. Excuse me?" I asked. I always say "excuse me" even though I heard perfectly well what the person said. I feel that by saying "excuse me," I'm giving them a chance to realize they're being an asshole, and they can change their attitude for the second attempt.

Jen Mann

#42. Take care, Sancho," said Samson; "honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#43. You cast a desperate look at Eric, who has not yet noticed that you've been bitten. Will I turn now? Am I becoming one of them? When Ghandi said, 'Be the change you want to see in the world,' I don't think this is how he meant it.

A.J. Lauer

#44. Prior to providing their freedom UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, apparently sensing a change in the tide, said that the two pilots were released, 'to show Cuba that we are also men, revolutionaries and human.

Peter Polack

#45. Stop using, "easier said than done", as an excuse to not change! Bringing your life to a higher level is challenging; get over it and rise to the challenge!

Steve Maraboli

#46. We all have to make choices," Joan said. "Since we can't have two lives, only one. But, most of those choices we make fresh every day, not just once. So, if you regret something, if you want to change your mind, you usually can.

Menna Van Praag

#47. The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder."
"A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

Libba Bray

#48. I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart may no longer be able to contain it.

Susan E. Isaacs

#49. Easier said than done' is the mantra of the stagnant; the creed of the unchanging.

Steve Maraboli

#50. I'm protecting what's mine."
...
"I'm not yours," I said.
"You're welcome to think that but it doesn't change the fact that you are.

Kristen Ashley

#51. Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

David Hockney

#52. Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.

Juliet Marillier

#53. We are all the product of our minds and why Gandhi said ... Become the change we want to see. Because if we don't change our minds for the better ... we will never see the changes in humanity.

Timothy Pina

#54. Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.
The Sunborn

Gregory Benford

#55. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must be fond of another world (real or imaginary) in order to have something to change it to.

G.K. Chesterton

#56. Oh," she breathed. "How silly I've been."
"How silly we've all been," said another of the wives. "We shouldn't be fighting each other. Our problems don't lie in any of the relationships we have with each other."
"The problem is our entire social system," chimed in another.

Colleen Chen

#57. As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

#58. People don't change," Nina said bitterly. "They just get more punctilious about hiding their true selves.

Ruth Ware

#59. The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#60. It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

Rita Ora

#61. Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same.

Bernard Cornwell

#62. What is with you and faces?" Qibli said. "You should try threatening someone's elbows or ankles once in a while, just for a change of pace.

Tui T. Sutherland

#63. A lady named Maude let me in the back,' he said. 'She's a firecracker, that one. Told me she's knitting trivets as a wild change of pace from scarves. If you're keeping score, that means changing from a rectangle all the way to a square.

Heather Cocks

#64. Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giving us a name doesn't help anybody. When did a name change what someone is?

Brenna Yovanoff

#65. Let my office know when you change your mind," he said, then headed for the door, jerking to a stop when Ivy didn't get out of his way.
"Let us know when cherry lollypops come out your ass," Jenks said,

Kim Harrison

#66. People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Bill Bradley

#67. Here's some honesty," Neil said. "I don't like you, and I don't trust you." "It's mutual," Andrew said. "That doesn't change anything.

Nora Sakavic

#68. Put it down," Ceony said. Clearing her throat, she repeated, "Put it down or I'll shoot you, I swear I will. I'm taking this heart back with me."
Lira's face turned to a scowl so gradually Ceony hardly saw it change. "I'm not letting some ginger tart take what's rightfully mine.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#69. As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.

Elizabeth Brundage

#70. Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers," Ruth said.
"Into what?" Ezekiel asked.

Peter Tieryas

#71. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.

Sharon Creech

#72. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#73. Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

Trudi Canavan

#74. But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.

Mike Bond

#75. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.

Zia Haider Rahman

#76. They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Bobby Vinton

#77. Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Daniel Keyes

#78. Someday, I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe.'
That made me smile. 'What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?'
'I know what I'll do with them,' he said. 'Maybe change the world.
I believed him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#79. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Anne Rice

#80. Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

Rana Dasgupta

#81. And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

Sara Zarr

#82. What's the purpose of being with someone if they don't change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.

Alejandro Zambra

#83. Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

Jack Antonoff

#84. I know there's no way that I deserve you," he said, cutting her off, his voice a half whisper. "We make no sense together. We are so different that our involvement should be illegal, but that doesn't change my instinct on this. I sense we're connected, and for a reason.

Sarah Noffke

#85. I mean, doesn't it change history even if you just tread on an ant?' 'For the ant, certainly,' said Qu.

Terry Pratchett

#86. late for that," said Major Zima. "Besides, if there's one thing I've learned doing Civil Affairs in Iraq, it's that it's hard to come in and change people's culture.

Phil Klay

#87. You're hitting rock bottom," she said. "You know, Jennifer, you have to hit bottom before you can make a change, and it's finally happening.

Jennifer Lopez

#88. I believe he collects different types of stationery,' said Vetinari. 'I have sometimes speculated that he might change his life for the better should he meet a young lady willing to dress up as a manila envelope.

Terry Pratchett

#89. This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.
Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.

Ayn Rand

#90. It is a time of change,' Sazed said. 'Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Brandon Sanderson

#91. You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

Cormac McCarthy

#92. We are making a new order," he said. "A new world. There is talk of the end of the authority of the Pope, the map of France and Spain is being redrawn. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.

Philippa Gregory

#93. 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

#94. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

David Bohm

#95. Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting
" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you ... did you bathe in the River Styx?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Percy! Did you or not?"
"Um ... maybe a little.

Rick Riordan

#96. We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial problems. Why? Because we need a change of heart and attitude, Jesus said, "You must be born again" [John 3:7].

Billy Graham

#97. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

Thomas Sowell

#98. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

Neil Gaiman

#99. Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Jennifer Egan

#100. I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,' Irene said sharply. 'Just because I like a few specific people doesn't change anything.

Genevieve Cogman