They Never Change Quotes

#1. I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

Alice Waters

#2. The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

Paul Mooney

#3. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).

David Frum

#4. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.

Enid Blyton

#5. Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.

Elliott Abrams

#6. The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

Valentina Tereshkova

#7. Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ...

Clay Shirky

#8. Whatever the era ... one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

Barbara Bush

#9. I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think
the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually ... Remember that.

Lisa Wingate

#10. I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

Walker Evans

#11. How do you know I'm not like that actress they're always mocking, the one whose expressions they claim never change? What's her name? Kristen Stewart.

Tiffany King

#12. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.

Og Mandino

#13. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.

Rand Olson

#14. There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.

Ethan Hawke

#15. And isn't it weird that no one wants to change who they are, yet they aren't even trying to be themselves? Just a thought. We're all so focused on being somebody, and it's usually never the real us.

Lindy Zart

#16. They never get easier, never stop my heart from trip-trapping, never let me escape, this time, unscathed. But they teach me things, and they open my eyes, and if they hurt, they hurt in ways that make me think and grow and change.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Oh these dumb dumb dumb Okies, they'll never change, how com-pletely and how unbelievably dumb, the moment it comes time to act, this paralysis, scared, hysterical, nothing frightens em more than what they WANT- it's MY FATHER MY FATER MY FATHER all over again!

Jack Kerouac

#18. You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.

Andrew Holleran

#19. The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

Marisha Pessl

#20. I once heard this statement that women marry men hoping to change them, while men marry women hoping they'll never change.

Cindi Madsen

#21. Teach but never try to change people because sometimes they change back.

Tyler Perry

#22. I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

Assata Shakur

#23. 'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

Jane Hamilton

#24. My grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day
they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.

Blue Balliett

#25. By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

Emil Zatopek

#26. Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or make snide little comments under their breath, then they need to be bold enough to say it to my face.

Lena Matthews

#27. Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world.
Some people never have them at all ... I get them two or three times a week.

Neil Gaiman

#28. Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Bruce Lee

#29. Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Jehane Noujaim

#30. Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Joyce Meyer

#31. It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

Taylor Swift

#32. I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Maya Angelou

#33. I will never remember anything
I know how to forget and forgive
Life has turned into miracle,now
I know, when I am dead
Nobody would remember me,
they all will forget
I am an immortal soul
I will forgive them, all
Shapeshifting in wind of change.

Santosh Kalwar

#34. Things are always different than what they might be ... If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Henry James

#35. When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Andy Warhol

#36. I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.

Paul Dano

#37. This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Maxine Waters

#38. If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?

Owen Barfield

#39. Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you.

Karen Clark

#40. I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life ... The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

Nick Hornby

#41. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. I think Westlife is very unique: we have a certain sound; we do our thing our way, and we don't try to change too much. I think that's what the fans love about us. We keep giving the fans what they want every year. The style of music never really changes too much.

Shane Filan

#43. You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don't have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life's lessons.

Ron Baratono

#44. A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Chip Heath

#45. To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.

Haile Gerima

#46. I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

Tony Robbins

#47. People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Margery Allingham

#48. In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

Carson McCullers

#49. Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Shashi Deshpande

#50. Never express your adverse thinking to any buddy, they will change your every opinion into pessimism.

Muhammad Riaz

#51. The thing about teen idol," Louisa is saying, "is he morphs through time. The boys' faces and names change, but the emotional need they fulfill, well, that never changes.

Allison Pearson

#52. Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Guy Clark

#53. Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Harold Washington

#54. He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.

Brandon Sanderson

#55. Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.

David Mitchell

#56. I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

Jodi Picoult

#57. The key thing to keep in mind is that people do change, but they do it in their own time, for their own reasons. That's why you can hope for change, you can encourage change, you can communicate that you want change, but there are never any guarantees that it will happen.

John Hawkins

#58. Haw said, "Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we." Haw

Spencer Johnson

#59. Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

#60. I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Darius Rucker

#61. I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Robert Evans

#62. You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.

Antonia Michaelis

#63. The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

Corey Feldman

#64. Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Swami Vivekananda

#65. They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside.

Little Mix

#66. My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#67. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth

#68. I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.

Jim Goldberg

#69. Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different.

Joshua Caleb

#70. Allah never changes a people's state unless they change what's in themselves

Haroon Siddiqui

#71. I'm not a fan of debt consolidation. In my experience, many people "clear" credit cards and other debt to get the one payment and never change what they need to change to prevent getting into debt again.

Michelle Singletary

#72. Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.

Paula McLain

#73. She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Junot Diaz

#74. It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

Nicholas Sparks

#75. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

M. John Harrison

#76. I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

Bob Riley

#77. People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

George Michael

#78. some people never change, they just repeat themselves

Meilena Hauslendale

#79. In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

Dave Barry

#80. You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.

Mischa Elman

#81. You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

Ted Cruz

#82. Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

Casey Treat

#83. Whoever declared that love at first sight doesn't exist has never witnessed the purity of a puppy or looked deep into a puppy's eyes. If they did, their lives would change considerably.

Elizabeth Parker

#84. There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

Noel Gallagher

#85. Treating people badly in reaction to how they treat us plays into the ugliness in the world and perpetuates it. Treating people well, not in the hopes that they'll change, because sometimes people never change, keeps our hearts and minds free from the ugliness.

Kim Holden

#86. There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life
life's "experiences"
are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

Mark Twain

#87. The people who refuse to submit to God's authority will never really discover who they are and what God wants them to do. No matter how successful they may be in the eyes of the world, unless they change they will be failures in the eyes of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#88. A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Honore De Balzac

#89. I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.

Denzel Whitaker

#90. Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

Bell Hooks

#91. You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Rebecca Solnit

#92. Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed.

T.D. Jakes

#93. People change,' she said
'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Graham Greene

#94. Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

Guy Burgess

#96. When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.

Andy Andrews

#97. For the soul-wounded woman. Your healed voice is my favorite sound. Your hurts, they walk right into our hearts; but your story of healing
that can change lives. Never be afraid to find and use your voice.

Jo Ann Fore

#98. At times we wish that these clouds never came our way for all they bring with them is misery but on others they bring relief.
It is their absence that is difficult to get by, to fill, for autumn is near.
But then seasons do change.

Chirag Tulsiani

#99. Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

Nick Cave

#100. Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Gloria Steinem