Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works...
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off tha...
You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
Your problems never cease. They just change.
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.