Quotes of: Changing Keyword

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

To know the outcome of a desire means you are relying on what you already know. True change comes in colors you've never imagined. Expect serendipity and surprises ~

Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers

Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

The Princess Bride

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

The purest joys are available to all of us, and they're unrelated to status, recognition, or material desires.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Our life's great friendships are dropped on us in strange little ways but for providential reasons. We are meant to encounter our opposites in life and be changed by them – transformed, in some manner.

The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

Proxy

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

The Piper's Son

For the land's sake, Sarah Gale, let the earth turn on its axis, and don't be forever tryin' to stop it. There ain't but one law of progress, so far as I know, and that's by changes.

Polly's Secret

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Paper Towns

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A brick could be lodged inside a home to provide comfort, stability, hope, change, and audacity. Oh gosh! Sorry about the last three—I was in my political bullshit mode again. 

Rick Bet Blank

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

The Rent Collector

These are her accomplishments. Challenges she's lived through. Shithead was just along for the ride. In the background. Like wallpaper. You can change the color of the walls anytime, and it might look different, but the room's still the same.

Tangled

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or ...

Travels

What if leaves changed shape as well as color? You can teach a man to fish, or you can introduce him to a woman named Fish who happens to look like a trout.

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